The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 86
Pii, pii, he would have burned me if he could; Pii, pii, but I burned him, and he crackled finely.
Who acts: I, pii · What happens: burn, crackle · To what, where: Pii
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), 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 | 8 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pii | punct |
| 3 | pii | pii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pii | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pii | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 burned | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 burned | aux |
| 8 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 burned | obj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 burned | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pii | punct |
| 14 | Pii | Pii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 burned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pii | punct |
| 16 | pii | pii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Pii | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burned | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 burned | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 burned | nsubj |
| 20 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burned | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 burned | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crackled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 crackled | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 crackled | nsubj |
| 25 | crackled | crackle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 burned | conj |
| 26 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 25 crackled | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | would · perfect · passive | Pii | Pii and pii obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | past | I | pii | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crackle | past | pii | finely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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