The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 13
But she cried out, ‘O serpent, to-day you can eat two people.
Who acts: daughter, you · What happens: cry out, eat · To what, where: serpent, two people
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 cried | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 cried | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 serpent | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 serpent | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 serpent | discourse |
| 8 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 people | nummod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | daughter | serpent | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | can | you | two people | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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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