The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 21
‘Do you want to know everything?’ her husband said.
Who acts: you, husband · What happens: want, know, say · To what, where: everything · 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 (you, husband), 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 | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | girl's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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