The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 40
‘Yes,’ said the man, ‘that would have been a good thing.’
Who acts: that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: man · 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 (that), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thing | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 16 thing | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 thing | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thing | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 thing | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | would · perfect | that | ‘ a good thing | tree rules |
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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