The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 1
‘“My fate was quite different,” said the iron pot, near which the matches lay.
Who acts: fate, different, matches, My · What happens: be, say, lay, fate · To what, where: iron pot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fate, different, matches, My), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
| 3 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fate | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 different | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 different | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 different | advmod |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 12 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | compound |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lay | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 matches | det |
| 18 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | My fate | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | different | the iron pot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pot=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | the matches | the iron pot | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fate in a quote | My | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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