The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 21
‘“If the urn will not sing,” said she, “outside the door hangs a nightingale in a cage who will sing.”
Who acts: urn, beginning, cage · What happens: not sing, say, hang, sing · To what, where: nightingale, cage · 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 (urn, beginning, cage), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 3 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 sing | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 urn | det |
| 5 | urn | urn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sing | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sing | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sing | advmod |
| 8 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hangs | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hangs | punct |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hangs | obl |
| 18 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nightingale | det |
| 20 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hangs | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cage | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cage | det |
| 23 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hangs | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sing | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sing | aux |
| 26 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cage | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | the urn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | beginning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hang in a quote | present | beginning not said here | a nightingale | a cage | outside the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nightingale=Theme outside door=Destination | ||
| 4 | sing speech: express in a quote | future | a cage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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