The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 89
‘I will take you to your brother,’ she said, hoping to get the better of him by cunning, ‘but leave me alone.
Who acts: I, witch · What happens: take, say, hope, get, leave · To what, where: you, brother, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, witch), 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoping | punct |
| 14 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 better | det |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 get | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 better | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 cunning | case |
| 22 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 leave | cc |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | advcl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 leave | obj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 26 leave | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | you | your brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to brother=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | witch not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | witch not said here | by cunning; good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | witch not said here | me | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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