The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 28
‘Now,’ said he, ‘I shall change myself to a horse, and father can take me to market and sell me.
Who acts: boy, I, father · What happens: say, change, take, sell · To what, where: myself, me, market · 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, I, father), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 change | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 change | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 change | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 change | aux |
| 11 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 change | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 change | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 market | case |
| 23 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sell | cc |
| 25 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 take | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sell | iobj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | boy | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | change | shall | I | myself | to a horse | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | can | father | me | market | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to market=Destination | |||
| 4 | sell | infinitive | father not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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