The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 81
‘Then what can I do to disenchant him, and find the water of life, the talking bird, and a branch of the tree of beauty?’
Who acts: I · What happens: do, disenchant, find · To what, where: branch, giant, water
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 what | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 disenchant | mark |
| 8 | disenchant | disenchant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disenchant | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bird | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 19 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bird | compound |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 branch | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 branch | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 branch | det |
| 24 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 branch | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 beauty | case |
| 29 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tree | nmod |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | a branch of the tree of beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disenchant | to-infinitive | I not said here | giant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | I not said here | the water of life and the talking bird | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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