The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 52
‘Don’t be in a hurry,’ answered the Man-eater, who of course did not know whom he was talking to, ‘and perhaps I can help you;’ and they set to work sawing and fitting, and very soon the coffin was finished.
Who acts: hurry, Man eater, I, roads · What happens: not be, answer, not know, talk, ‘, help · To what, where: hurry, Man eater, you, coffin · 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 (hurry, Man eater, I, roads), 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 | _ | 7 hurry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurry | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hurry | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurry | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hurry | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hurry | det |
| 7 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurry | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurry | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eater | det |
| 12 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eater | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Man | punct |
| 14 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 know | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 21 know | advmod |
| 18 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 of | fixed |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 eater | conj |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 talking | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 talking | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 talking | aux |
| 25 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 know | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 talking | fixed |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ‘ | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 help | cc |
| 30 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 33 help | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 help | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 help | aux |
| 33 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ‘ | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 help | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 set | cc |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | nsubj |
| 39 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 work | mark |
| 41 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 set | xcomp |
| 42 | sawing | saw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 work | xcomp |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fitting | cc |
| 44 | fitting | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 sawing | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 finished | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 finished | cc |
| 47 | very | very | ADV | _ | 48 soon | advmod |
| 48 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 finished | advmod |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 coffin | det |
| 50 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 finished | aux:pass |
| 52 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 answered | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive · do-support | a hurry | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a hurry | the Man eater | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eater=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | the Man eater | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | talk | past · progressive | hurry | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ‘ | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | help | can | I | you | perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | set | present | roads = road | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | work | to-infinitive | roads = road not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | saw | gerund | roads = road not said here | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | fit | gerund | roads = road not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | finish | past · passive | the coffin | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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