The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 61
Who will hire me for a servant?’
What happens: hire · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 hire | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hire | aux |
| 3 | hire | hire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hire | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 servant | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 servant | det |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hire | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hire | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | future | me | for a servant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for servant=Beneficiary |
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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