The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 65
‘What can you do?’ she said; and the girl was forced to confess that she could do very little.
Who acts: you, maid, girl · What happens: do, say, force, confess · To what, where: girl, little · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (you, maid, girl), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 forced | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forced | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 forced | aux:pass |
| 15 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 confess | mark |
| 17 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 forced | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 confess | ccomp |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 little | advmod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | the girl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | confess | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | could | maid | little | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality |
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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