The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 17
‘I have,’ said he, ‘a little house in the village, and over it grows a fig-tree.
Who acts: I, father, village · What happens: have, say, grow · To what, where: fig tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, village), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 village | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 village | det |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grows | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grows | cc |
| 18 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 20 grows | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grows | nsubj |
| 20 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 22 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fig | punct |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grows | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | village | a fig tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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