The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 105
‘And one can’t get a fellow like this in summer either,’ said the young man, pointing to the Snow-man.
Who acts: ‘, young man · What happens: not get, say, point · To what, where: fellow, Snow man · 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 (‘, young man), 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 one | cc |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 ‘ | conj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fellow | det |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 fellow | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 summer | case |
| 12 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 13 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pointing | punct |
| 21 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 24 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 man | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Snow | punct |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pointing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | can | ‘ | a fellow | summer | like this; either property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | point | gerund | the young man not said here | the Snow man | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
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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