The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 66
Was it you? and did you mean me to come?’
Who acts: Dinner, you · What happens: be, mean, come · To what, where: you, me
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 (Dinner, you), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 you | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 you | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mean | cc |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 mean | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mean | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dinner | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | past · do-support | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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