The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 43
You shall then step forward again and answer, “It is in a fish.”
Who acts: You, heart · What happens: step forward, answer, be · 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, heart), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 step | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 step | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 step | advmod |
| 4 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 step | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 step | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 answer | cc |
| 8 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 step | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fish | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fish | punct |
| 11 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fish | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fish | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fish | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answer | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 step | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step forward | shall | You | then; again | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | You not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | heart | in a fish | 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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