The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 35
And aloud he said: ‘ All right; follow me, and we will go to a lawyer and get him to make a contract.’
Who acts: mad, we · What happens: say, follow, go, get, make · To what, where: me, mad, contract · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mad, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 right | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 right | punct |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 right | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 follow | punct |
| 10 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 right | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 follow | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 follow | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lawyer | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lawyer | det |
| 19 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 follow | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 get | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 contract | det |
| 26 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mad | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | follow | infinitive | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | future | we | to a lawyer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lawyer=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | mad | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | mad not said here | a contract | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset contract=Product |
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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