The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 97
‘We can’t do that,’ shouted the princes; ‘he doesn’t belong to us so we can’t give him away.’
Who acts: We, distance · What happens: not do, shout, not belong, not give away · To what, where: that, princes, us, distance
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, distance), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princes | det |
| 11 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shouted | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 belong | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 belong | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 belong | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 belong | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 belong | advmod |
| 17 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 belong | obl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 give | advmod |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 22 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 give | advmod |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 belong | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 give | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | can | We | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | We not said here | the princes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not belong | present · do-support | distance | us | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not give away | can | we | distance | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=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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