The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 52
‘Yes, do go,’ she said; ‘it will be a good deed, for then you can set your brothers and my sisters free.’
Who acts: you, friend, search · What happens: go, say, be, set · To what, where: good deed, brothers · 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, friend, search), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 deed | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 deed | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 deed | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 deed | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 deed | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 deed | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deed | amod |
| 17 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 then | case |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 set | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 set | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 free | cc |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 free | nsubj |
| 29 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 set | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | future | search | a good deed | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | can | you | your brothers | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent brother=Patient for then=Beneficiary |
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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