The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 15
But the mother said, ‘Must I lose my dearest child too?’
Who acts: mother, I · What happens: say, lose · To what, where: dearest child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 7 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lose | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 lose | nsubj |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 child | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 child | amod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 lose | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lose | must | I | my dearest child | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality |
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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