The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 135
‘Very well,’ replied the elder; ‘but how shall we let each other know if we are both living?’
Who acts: we · What happens: reply, let, know, live · To what, where: elder · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elder | det |
| 8 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 let | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 know | advmod |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | advcl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 living | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 living | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 living | aux |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 23 living | advmod |
| 23 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 know | ccomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the elder | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | shall | we | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | present | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | live a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | we | both property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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