The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 69
‘It sha’n’t make me blink, though, and I shall keep quite cool and collected.’
Who acts: sun, me, I · What happens: not make, not blink, keep, collect · To what, where: me
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 (sun, me, 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 | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | sha’ | sha' | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | blink | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 though | punct |
| 9 | though | though | ADV | _ | 7 blink | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 keep | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | aux |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | parataxis |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 cool | advmod |
| 16 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 collected | cc |
| 18 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | sun | me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not blink | infinitive | me not said here | though property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | shall | I | cool property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | collect | past | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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