The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 58
‘After all,’ it said, ‘what good can I do you?
Who acts: Turtle, I · What happens: say, do · To what, where: you · 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 (Turtle, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 good | nsubj |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 good | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | iobj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Turtle | after all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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