The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 14
‘It was a pity I didn’t get that place,’ thought he ‘That was just the very thing for me.’
Who acts: work, boy · What happens: be, not get, think · To what, where: pity, place, thing · 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 (work, boy), 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 | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thing | nsubj |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
| 17 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 thing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thing | cop |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 thing | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 thing | advmod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 thing | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | work | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get | past · do-support | that place | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | boy | the thing | for me | tree rules |
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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