The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 119
‘Really people who have only been in the world one day know very little.’
Who acts: people · What happens: have, be, know · To what, where: world, little
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 (people), 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 | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 2 | Really | really | ADV | _ | 3 people | advmod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 know | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 world | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 world | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 little | advmod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 know | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | people | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | the world | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | present | people | little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |
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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