The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 90
‘I have come to get Peter’s contract,’ said she.
Who acts: I, Spirit, Peter · What happens: come, get, say, contract · To what, where: contract · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Spirit, Peter), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | advcl |
| 7 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 contract | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Peter | case |
| 9 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | Peter's contract | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contract=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Spirit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | contract | Peter | nom contract «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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