The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 16
‘What affectation!’ said the shirt-collar.
Who acts: affectation · What happens: say · To what, where: shirt collar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (affectation), 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 | _ | 3 affectation | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 affectation | det |
| 3 | affectation | affectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 affectation | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 affectation | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collar | det |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collar | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 shirt | punct |
| 10 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | what affectation | the shirt collar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=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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