The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 181
‘The weather is going to change!’ he added.
Who acts: weather, Bow · What happens: go, change, add
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 (weather, Bow), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weather | det |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 added | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 change | mark |
| 7 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | the weather | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | the weather not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | Bow | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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