The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 6
‘“No, I don’t like talking about myself,” said the pot.
Who acts: pot · What happens: not do, talk, say · 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 3 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 talking | mark |
| 9 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 do | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 myself | case |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 talking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pot | det |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | the pot = pot | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | gerund | the pot = pot not said here | about the pot = pot | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about myself=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the pot | 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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