The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 7

‘Perhaps you are a girdle?’ said the shirt-collar, ‘an under girdle? for I see that you are for use as well as for ornament, my pretty miss!’

Who acts: you, girdle, I · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: girdle, 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 (you, girdle, 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	_	6 girdle	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 girdle	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 girdle	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girdle	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girdle	det
6	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 girdle	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 girdle	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 collar	det
11	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 collar	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 shirt	punct
13	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 girdle	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 girdle	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 girdle	det
17	under	under	ADP	_	18 girdle	case
18	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 collar	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 see	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 use	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 use	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 use	cop
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 use	case
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	ccomp
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	32 ornament	cc
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	as	as	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 ornament	case
32	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 miss	punct
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 miss	nmod:poss
35	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 miss	amod
36	miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	parataxis
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 miss	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 miss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	you	a girdle	perhaps property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a girdle	the shirt collar and a girdle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic
3	see	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	you		for use as ornament	tree rules

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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