The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 66
‘Then you will have to do scullion’s work, and wash up dishes,’ said she; and they went straight back to the palace.
Who acts: you, maid, dishes, scullion · What happens: have, do, wash up, say, go, work · To what, where: work, dishes, palace · 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, dishes, scullion), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 scullion | case |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wash | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wash | cc |
| 13 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 wash | compound:prt |
| 15 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wash | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 24 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 25 back | advmod |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | you | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | scullion's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wash up | infinitive | you not said here | dishes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past | dishes = dish | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | work | scullion | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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