The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 22
‘“I don’t think it’s proper,” said the kettle, “that such a foreign bird should be heard.”
Who acts: kettle · What happens: not think, say, hear · To what, where: foreign bird · 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 (kettle), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 think | advmod |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ’s | nsubj |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | ccomp |
| 9 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 8 ’s | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kettle | det |
| 14 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 heard | mark |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 bird | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 20 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bird | amod |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 heard | aux:pass |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | the kettle = kettle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the kettle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | should · passive | such foreign bird | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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