The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 85

‘At any rate, leave it with me for a few days,’ said he; ‘I should like to show it to my daughter.’

Who acts: man, I · What happens: leave, say, like, show · To what, where: Lion, rate, daughter · 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 (man, 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	_	6 leave	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	4 rate	case
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 rate	det
4	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rate	punct
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 days	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 days	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 days	amod
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leave	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 like	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 like	aux
22	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 show	mark
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 like	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 show	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 daughter	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 show	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	infinitive		Lion		any rate	day	with me	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at rate=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	should	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	Lion	my daughter				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to daughter=Recipient

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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