The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 13
Next morning the witch said to the prince, ‘To-day you shall have some easy work to do.
Who acts: witch, you · What happens: say, have, do · To what, where: prince, easy work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, you), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 11 | To | to | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 To | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 work | det |
| 18 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 work | amod |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 work | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | the prince | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | shall | you | some easy work | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | some easy work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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