The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 51
‘We are very happy here; and who knows how we shall get on elsewhere?’
Who acts: We · What happens: be, know, get · 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 (We), 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 happy | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 happy | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knows | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 knows | nsubj |
| 10 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 get | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knows | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 elsewhere | case |
| 16 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 14 get | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | here | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | get | shall | we | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on elsewhere=Source |
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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