The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 65
‘It is the skein of your love’s ill-luck,’ she said.
Who acts: bundle, woman, your · What happens: be, say, love · To what, where: skein · 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 (bundle, woman, your), 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 | _ | 5 skein | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 skein | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 skein | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skein | det |
| 5 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 luck | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 luck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 love | case |
| 10 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 luck | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ill | punct |
| 12 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skein | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 skein | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 skein | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | bundle | the skein | of your love's ill luck | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love | your | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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