The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 107
‘A fish is playing with it just now,’ replied the voice; ‘however, you shall have it without delay.’
Who acts: fish, playing, you · What happens: play, reply, have · To what, where: voice, ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, playing, you), 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 playing | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 playing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 playing | aux |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 replied | csubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 playing | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 now | advmod |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 playing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 playing | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 playing | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 17 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 have | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 however | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 delay | case |
| 24 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · progressive | a fish | now | with ring | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | playing | the voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | you | ring | without delay; however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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