The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 31
‘I did it to show my love for your heart,’ said the girl.
Who acts: I, girl, my · What happens: do, show, say, love · To what, where: heart, love · 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 (I, girl, my), 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 | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | I not said here | my love | for your heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent love=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/31/