The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 107
‘But something that we can laugh at,’ said the sultan.
Who acts: we, something · What happens: laugh, say · To what, where: sultan · 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 (we, something), 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 | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 something | cc |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 said | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 laugh | obj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 laugh | aux |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 something | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 laugh | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sultan | det |
| 13 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | can | we | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | something | the sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultan=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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