The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 28
But each pot knew what he might have done, and how grand he was.
Who acts: pot · What happens: know, do, be · 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 (pot), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 knew | cc |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 pot | det |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 done | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 done | aux |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grand | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grand | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 grand | advmod |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grand | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | each pot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | might · perfect | pot | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | past | pot | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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