The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 22
Pretty cock, Pretty hen, And you, pretty brindled cow, What do you say now?
Who acts: you · What happens: say · To what, where: brindled cow · 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 (you), 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 | Pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cock | amod |
| 2 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hen | punct |
| 4 | Pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hen | amod |
| 5 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cock | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 you | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 you | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 cock | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cow | punct |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 11 brindled | advmod |
| 11 | brindled | brindled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cow | amod |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cock | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 say | obj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 say | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cow | conj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 say | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | you | brindled cow | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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