The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 20
‘Oh, yes; just as readily you as anyone else,’ said the boy.
Who acts: boy · What happens: say · 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 (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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 readily | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 readily | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 readily | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 readily | advmod |
| 8 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 readily | nsubj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 readily | obl |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 anyone | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 readily | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 readily | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | readily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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