The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 23
With this he cut a piece off the beak, and there came a voice which said, ‘Oh, oh, you cut my little finger!’
Who acts: brother, voice, you · What happens: cut, come, say · To what, where: piece, little finger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, voice, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cut | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 beak | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beak | det |
| 9 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 came | expl |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 voice | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cut | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 cut | punct |
| 20 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 25 cut | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Oh | punct |
| 22 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 25 cut | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 oh | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 cut | nsubj |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | parataxis |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 finger | nmod:poss |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 finger | amod |
| 28 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cut | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | brother | a piece | with this; off the beak | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient with this=Instrument | |||
| 2 | come | past | a voice | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cut | present | you | my little finger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Product |
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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