The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 38
Then said the second fairy: ‘This youth has a purse in his hand.
Who acts: youth · What happens: say, have · To what, where: second fairy, purse, hand · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 fairy | amod |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 8 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 purse | det |
| 12 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the second fairy | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | this youth | a purse | youth's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=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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