The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 45
‘I have had a terrible number of love affairs!’ he said.
Who acts: I, assortment · What happens: have, say · To what, where: terrible number · 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, assortment), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 6 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 number | amod |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 affairs | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 affairs | compound |
| 10 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | a terrible number of love affairs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | assortment | 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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