The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 56
‘Do you think so?’ said the carpenter; ‘I can well believe it, for I am indeed very poorly.’
Who acts: you, carpenter, I · What happens: think, say, believe, be · To what, where: bed · 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 (you, carpenter, I), 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carpenter | det |
| 10 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 believe | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | aux |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 believe | advmod |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believe | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 poorly | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 poorly | case |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 poorly | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 poorly | cop |
| 22 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 poorly | advmod |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 poorly | advmod |
| 24 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 16 believe | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the carpenter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | believe | can | I | bed | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | indeed, poorly property | 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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