The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 87
‘And now you have roasted my thirteenth and last daughter in the oven, and taken my coverlet?’
What happens: roast, take · To what, where: ‘, thirteenth daughter, oven, coverlet
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: 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 roasted | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 roasted | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 roasted | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 roasted | aux |
| 6 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughter | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 last | cc |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thirteenth | conj |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roasted | iobj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 oven | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 oven | det |
| 14 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roasted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taken | cc |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 roasted | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 coverlet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 roasted | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 roasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | present · perfect · passive | ‘ | my thirteenth daughter | the oven | now | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary daughter=Patient | ||
| 2 | take | participle | my coverlet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=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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