The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 110
On the eighth day I will tie a white sash round my waist, and by that you will know me.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tie, know · To what, where: white sash, me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tie | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tie | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tie | aux |
| 7 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sash | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sash | amod |
| 10 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tie | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 waist | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 waist | nmod:poss |
| 13 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tie | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 by | fixed |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tie | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tie | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | future | I | a white sash | day | round my waist | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sash=Patient | ||
| 2 | know | future | you | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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