The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 44
“Do you know that fish?” he will say, and you will again answer “Yes.”
Who acts: you · What happens: know, say, answer · 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fish | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fish | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 answer | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 answer | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 answer | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 answer | aux |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 answer | advmod |
| 17 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | conj |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yes | punct |
| 19 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 17 answer | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | future | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | future | you | again | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality |
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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