The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 2
‘Well, how did you like being a raven?’ said the troll.
Who acts: you · What happens: like, be, say · To what, where: raven, troll · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 like | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 like | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 raven | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 raven | det |
| 10 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 troll | det |
| 15 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | a raven | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the troll | tree rules |
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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