The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 6
‘But there are not enough left to take to the king,’ murmured Ciccu.
What happens: leave, take, murmur · To what, where: Ciccu
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: 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 left | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 are | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 enough | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 are | nsubj |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 left | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 murmured | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 murmured | punct |
| 15 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | conj |
| 16 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 murmured | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | to the king result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | |||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | past | Ciccu | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ciccu=Topic |
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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