The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 73
‘It’s our neighbour the carpenter,’ said his wife, ‘who is to be buried to-day.
Who acts: smith, neighbour · What happens: be, say, bury · To what, where: neighbour, wife · 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 (smith, neighbour), 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 neighbour | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 neighbour | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 neighbour | cop |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 carpenter | det |
| 7 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 neighbour | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 neighbour | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 neighbour | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buried | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 buried | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 buried | aux:pass |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 buried | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 buried | aux:pass |
| 19 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | smith | our neighbour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | our neighbour | carpenter's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bury | present · passive | day | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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