The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 22
‘If she is not on the earth,’ said Souci to himself, ‘perhaps she is hiding somewhere in the air.
Who acts: princess, Souci · What happens: not be, say, hide · To what, where: earth, Souci, air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Souci), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 earth | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 earth | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 earth | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 earth | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 earth | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 earth | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Souci | Souci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hiding | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 hiding | punct |
| 17 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 20 hiding | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hiding | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hiding | aux |
| 20 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 21 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 hiding | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 air | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hiding | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | princess | the earth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Souci | Souci | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hide | present · progressive | princess | the air | perhaps, somewhere property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
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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