The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 6
But the king’s cook thought to himself, ‘I shall see if I can’t get hold of you to-morrow evening.’
Who acts: cook, I · What happens: think, see, not get, hold · To what, where: cook, hold, you · 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 (cook, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cook | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 16 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 get | advmod |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | advcl |
| 19 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hold | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 evening | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 evening | compound |
| 25 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the king's cook | cook | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | shall | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not get a condition, not said to happen | can | I | hold of you | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | hold | you | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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