The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 39
‘But I can’t do anything,’ he said, ‘except carry a bundle, and I shan’t earn much by that.’
Who acts: I, Demon · What happens: not do, say, carry, not earn · To what, where: anything, bundle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Demon), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 carry | punct |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 carry | mark |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bundle | det |
| 17 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 earn | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 earn | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 earn | nsubj |
| 21 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 earn | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 earn | advmod |
| 23 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 carry | conj |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 earn | advmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 earn | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | can | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Demon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | a bundle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not earn | I | by that | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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