The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 131
‘Are you not thankful you did not eat that fish?
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, not eat · To what, where: fish
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 thankful | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thankful | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thankful | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 thankful | advmod |
| 5 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 eat | advmod |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thankful | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thankful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | you | thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not eat | past · do-support | you | that fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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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