The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 79
‘It was you that made me kill my eleven daughters?’
Who acts: s, you, me · What happens: be, make, kill · To what, where: you, me, eleven daughters
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 (s, you, me), 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 | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 daughters | nummod |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kill | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | s | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | me not said here | my eleven daughters | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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