The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 100
‘Yes, I shall only bring a fairy story for my dowry,’ said he, and so they parted.
Who acts: I, father, arms · What happens: bring, say, part · To what, where: fairy story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, arms), 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 bring | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 bring | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | compound |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dowry | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dowry | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 parted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 parted | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 parted | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 parted | nsubj |
| 22 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | shall | I | a fairy story | for my dowry | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent story=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | part | past | arms = arm | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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