The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 98
‘Then you can rot at the bottom of the sea, both of you,’ said the old woman; ‘and perhaps it may be the case that your mother would rather keep the two sons she has than the one she hasn’t got yet.’
Who acts: you, old woman, sea, mother, woman · What happens: rot, say, be, keep, have, not get · To what, where: bottom, case, that, two sons, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, old woman, sea, mother), 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 rot | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rot | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 rot | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 rot | aux |
| 5 | rot | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bottom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bottom | det |
| 8 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rot | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bottom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 both | punct |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bottom | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 both | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rot | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 rot | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 30 case | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 case | cc |
| 25 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 30 case | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 case | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 case | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 case | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 case | det |
| 30 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 keep | obj |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 mother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 keep | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 keep | aux |
| 35 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 36 keep | advmod |
| 36 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 case | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sons | det |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 sons | nummod |
| 39 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 keep | obj |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 has | nsubj |
| 41 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 sons | acl:relcl |
| 42 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 one | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 one | det |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 has | obl |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 got | nsubj |
| 46 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 got | aux |
| 47 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 got | advmod |
| 48 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 one | acl:relcl |
| 49 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 48 got | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 case | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 case | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rot | can | you | the bottom of the sea | then | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | may | sea | the case | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | keep | would | your mother | that | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme son=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | have | present | woman | the two sons not said here | than the one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 6 | not get | present · perfect | woman | the one not said here | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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