The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 69
‘Cheer up,’ laughed the horse; ‘tell the king you must have some bread and honey, and a purse of gold, and leave the rest to me.’
Who acts: you, king · What happens: cheer up, laugh, tell, have, leave · To what, where: horse, purse, bread, rest, me · 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 (you, king), 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 | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 2 | Cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Cheer | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laughed | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 laughed | cc |
| 6 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Cheer | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laughed | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Cheer | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | nsubj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 bread | det |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 honey | cc |
| 20 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bread | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 purse | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 purse | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 purse | det |
| 24 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 purse | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leave | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 leave | cc |
| 29 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rest | det |
| 31 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leave | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 leave | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer up | imperative | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | you not said here | the horse | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a purse of gold | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | must | the king | some bread and honey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | the rest | me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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