The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 74
‘You must get me that boar within three days,’ said the king, ‘or it will cost you your heads.’
Who acts: You, boar · What happens: get, say, cost · To what, where: me, king, heads, you · 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, boar), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 boar | mark |
| 7 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | xcomp |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ‘ | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | _ | 15 king | acl:relcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 cost | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cost | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 cost | aux |
| 21 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 cost | iobj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heads | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cost | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cost | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | must | You | me | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cost | future | boar | your heads | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary head=Value |
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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