The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 11
“That’s a story that will please us all.”
Who acts: That, story · What happens: be, please · To what, where: story, us
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 (That, story), 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 story | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 please | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 please | aux |
| 8 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 story | acl:relcl |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 please | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | please in a quote | future | a story | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/5/11/