The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 36
‘This youth has a coverlet over him,’ said the first fairy.
Who acts: youth · What happens: have, say · To what, where: coverlet, first fairy · 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 (youth), 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 | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coverlet | det |
| 6 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 coverlet | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 fairy | amod |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this youth | a coverlet | over coverlet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the first fairy | 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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