The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 167
‘I’m as good as gone already!’ answered the Snow-man.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: good, Snow man
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | advcl |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 gone | case |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | obl |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 3 ’m | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 13 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Snow | punct |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | good | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot good=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Snow man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
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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