The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 61
Then the youngest daughter spoke: ‘Dear father, do not look so sad.
Who acts: youngest daughter, Dear father · What happens: speak, not look · To what, where: Dear father · 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 (youngest daughter, Dear father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 8 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 father | amod |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 look | advmod |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 father | acl:relcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 sad | advmod |
| 15 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 look | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the youngest daughter | Dear father | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not look | infinitive · do-support | Dear father not said here | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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