The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 37
‘It is really wonderful what fine hair you have, madam!
Who acts: collar, you · What happens: be, have · To what, where: fine hair
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 (collar, you), 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 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wonderful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonderful | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 wonderful | advmod |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 wonderful | obj |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hair | amod |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 madam | punct |
| 12 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wonderful | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | collar | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | fine hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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