The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 14
‘Well, you will soon be rid of me at any rate,’ said Esben.
Who acts: you, Esben · What happens: be, say · To what, where: rate · 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, Esben), 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 | _ | 8 rid | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 rid | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 rid | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rid | aux |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 rid | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rid | cop |
| 8 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 rid | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 rate | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 rate | det |
| 13 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rid | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 rid | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | you | any rate | of me; rid, soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Esben | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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