The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 33
‘Aha!’ said he, ‘this is that boy of mine, who befooled me and ran away; but I shall have him yet.’
Who acts: last, boy, I · What happens: say, be, befool, run away, have · To what, where: boy, me, last · 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 (last, boy, I), 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 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 boy | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 he | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 boy | punct |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 boy | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 boy | cop |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 boy | mark |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mine | case |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 boy | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 befooled | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 befooled | nsubj |
| 17 | befooled | befool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 boy | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 befooled | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 befooled | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 have | obj |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | last | boy | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 3 | befool | past | boy | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | boy not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | shall | I | last | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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