The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 21

‘But can you read?’ said the man.

Who acts: you, man · What happens: read, 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 (you, man), 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	_	5 read	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 read	cc
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	you						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the man						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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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