The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 31
‘You have said that you know of a coverlet, the most beautiful in the whole world, and which sounds over eight kingdoms when anyone touches it.
Who acts: You, anyone · What happens: say, know, sound, touch · To what, where: eight kingdoms, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, anyone), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 coverlet | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coverlet | det |
| 10 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beautiful | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beautiful | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coverlet | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 world | amod |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beautiful | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sounds | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sounds | cc |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sounds | nsubj |
| 22 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 eight | advmod |
| 24 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 kingdoms | nummod |
| 25 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sounds | obj |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 touches | advmod |
| 27 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 touches | nsubj |
| 28 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sounds | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 touches | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | present | you | of a coverlet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of coverlet=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | eight kingdoms | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=Theme | |||||
| 4 | touch | present | anyone | world | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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