The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 36
But the neighbour pushed her away, saying, ‘No, I shall have none left for my children.’
Who acts: neighbour, I · What happens: push away, say, have, leave · To what, where: mouthful, none · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour, 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 | _ | 4 pushed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighbour | det |
| 3 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushed | nsubj |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pushed | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 pushed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 pushed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 have | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 No | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 none | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 children | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push away | past | the neighbour | mouthful | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the neighbour not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | shall | I | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | for my children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for child=Recipient |
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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