The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 20
‘Then you can have a little rest,’ he went on, ‘for rice pounding is very tiring work, and not at all fit for weak women.’
Who acts: you, heart · What happens: have, go on, be, not fit · To what, where: little rest, tiring work
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 (you, heart), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rest | amod |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 work | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 work | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 pounding | case |
| 17 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pounding | compound |
| 18 | pounding | pounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 work | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 work | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 tiring | advmod |
| 21 | tiring | tiring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 work | amod |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fit | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fit | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 fit | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 28 fit | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 fit | advmod |
| 28 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 women | case |
| 30 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 women | amod |
| 31 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fit | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | you | a little rest | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | |||
| 2 | go on | past | heart | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | tiring work | for rice pounding | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not fit | present | heart not said here | for weak women | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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