The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 23
‘“Oh, let us have some acting,” said everyone.
Who acts: us, everyone · What happens: let, have, say · To what, where: us, acting · 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 (us, everyone), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 let | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 acting | det |
| 9 | acting | acting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | some acting | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acting=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | everyone | 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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