The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 116
‘Take up the floor in this place,’ he said.
Who acts: king · What happens: take up, say · To what, where: floor, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:2502): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Take | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | infinitive | the floor | this place | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent floor=Value in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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