The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 20
‘Yes,’ said the prince, ‘many thanks for your help yesterday, and for what you offer to-day.’
Who acts: you, your · What happens: say, offer, help · To what, where: prince · 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 (you, your), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thanks | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 thanks | punct |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thanks | amod |
| 11 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 help | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 help | nmod:poss |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thanks | nmod |
| 15 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thanks | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 what | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 said | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 offer | nsubj |
| 21 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 offer | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||||
| 2 | offer | present | you | day | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | help | your | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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