The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 22
‘No, I don’t know a single letter,’ said the boy.
Who acts: I, boy · What happens: not know, say · To what, where: single letter · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 letter | amod |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | a single letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | 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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