The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 43
‘Now I must also give them a treat,’ thought the merchant’s son.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, think · To what, where: treat, hurrahs, son · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 give | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 give | advmod |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 treat | det |
| 9 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 merchant | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | must | I | a treat | hurrahs = hurrah | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient treat=Theme | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the merchant's son | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent son=Attribute clause=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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