The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 88
One day he said to his master, ‘Grandfather, shall I show you a splendid way to kill game?’
Who acts: pii, I · What happens: say, show, kill · To what, where: splendid way, you, game · 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 (pii, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 master | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Grandfather | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Grandfather | punct |
| 10 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 master | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 show | nsubj |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 kill | mark |
| 20 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kill | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | pii | day | to pii's master and Grandfather | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to master=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | show | shall | I | a splendid way | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic | |||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | I not said here | game | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
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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