The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 60
‘Oh, I always turn to this side,’ said the jackal.
Who acts: I · What happens: turn, say · To what, where: side, jackal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 turn | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 turn | advmod |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turn | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 turn | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jackal | det |
| 14 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | I | this side | always property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the jackal | 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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