The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 32
And again the old man smiled, saying, ‘You are a dear child, but my heart is not in the doorway.’
Who acts: old man, You, heart · What happens: smile, say, be, not be · To what, where: doorway · 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 (old man, You, heart), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 smiled | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 smiled | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smiled | nsubj |
| 6 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 smiled | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 child | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 15 child | case |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 child | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 child | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 doorway | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 doorway | cc |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 doorway | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 doorway | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 doorway | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 doorway | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 doorway | det |
| 24 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smiled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smiled | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the old man | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the old man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | You | ‘ a dear child | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | my heart | the doorway | tree rules |
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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