The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 85
Pii, pii, O flute that I love, Pii, pii, rabbits are but little boys.
Who acts: I, Pii rabbits · What happens: love, be · To what, where: flute, little boys
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 (I, Pii rabbits), 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 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rabbits | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pii | punct |
| 3 | pii | pii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pii | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flute | punct |
| 5 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 6 flute | discourse |
| 6 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pii | appos |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 love | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 flute | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pii | punct |
| 11 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pii | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pii | punct |
| 13 | pii | pii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pii | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pii | punct |
| 15 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 boys | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 boys | cop |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 boys | cc |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boys | amod |
| 19 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 boys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | flute | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Pii rabbits | little boys | 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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