The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 3
‘The heap of feathers that you see here,’ said she, ‘you must get finished before I come home in the evening, otherwise you shall be set to harder work.’
Who acts: you, heap, I · What happens: see, say, finish, come, set · To what, where: feathers, you · 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, heap, 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heap | det |
| 3 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 feathers | case |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heap | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 see | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heap | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 heap | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 finished | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 finished | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 finished | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 finished | aux |
| 18 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 finished | aux:pass |
| 19 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 finished | advcl |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 evening | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 evening | det |
| 26 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 28 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 32 set | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 set | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 set | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 set | aux:pass |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 finished | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 work | case |
| 34 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 work | amod |
| 35 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | feathers | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the heap of feathers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | finish | must · passive | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | come | present | I | evening | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | set | shall · passive | you | to harder work; otherwise property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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