The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 171
‘I can’t stand it any longer!’ he said.
Who acts: I, door · What happens: not stand, say · To what, where: room · 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 (I, door), 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 stand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stand | advmod |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stand | obj |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 stand | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | can | I | room | long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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