The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 64
‘Then throw the flower-pot over your head,’ said she.
Who acts: princess · What happens: throw, say · To what, where: flower pot, head · 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 (princess), 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 | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 throw | advmod |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throw | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 throw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | infinitive | the flower pot | your head | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pot=Theme over head=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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