The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 75
‘I am not going to let you depart like that,’ said she; ‘I have a present for you, which you must take as a sign of my gratitude.’
Who acts: I, you, life · What happens: not go, let, depart, say, have, take · To what, where: you, present, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, life), 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 | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 depart | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 present | det |
| 21 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 take | nsubj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 take | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | aux |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 have | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 sign | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sign | det |
| 31 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gratitude | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 34 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sign | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | depart | infinitive | you not said here | like that | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | present | I | a present | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient | |||
| 6 | take | must | as a sign of my gratitude | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as sign=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | sign | my gratitude | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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