The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 39

‘Yes, that I have!’ answered the hair-brush; ‘I’m engaged to the boot-jack!’

Who acts: I · What happens: have, answer, engage · To what, where: hair brush, I · 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 (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	_	9 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	advcl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brush	det
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brush	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hair	punct
13	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 engaged	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 engaged	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 engaged	nsubj
17	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 engaged	aux:pass
18	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 answered	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 jack	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 jack	det
21	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jack	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 boot	punct
23	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 engaged	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 engaged	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past		the hair brush		tree rules
3	engage	present · passive		I	to the boot jack	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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