The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 133
‘You mustn’t put any salt in the porridge, though,’ cried the witch.
Who acts: You · What happens: not put, cry · To what, where: salt, porridge, witch · 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), 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 put | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 salt | det |
| 7 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 porridge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 porridge | det |
| 10 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 though | punct |
| 12 | though | though | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not put | must | You | any salt | the porridge | though property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme in porridge=Destination | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the witch | 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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