The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 110
‘You brothers have said that you could, if you liked, get for me a lamp that can shine over seven kingdoms.
Who acts: you, lamp · What happens: say, like, get, shine · To what, where: You, lamp, seven kingdoms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lamp), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 You | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 liked | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 liked | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 liked | nsubj |
| 12 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 liked | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lamp | det |
| 18 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 shine | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 shine | aux |
| 21 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lamp | acl:relcl |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 seven | advmod |
| 23 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 kingdoms | nummod |
| 24 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shine | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | you not said here | a lamp | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | shine | can | a lamp | seven kingdoms | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
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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