The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 9
‘When anyone is as beautiful as you,’ said the shirt-collar, ‘is not that encouragement enough?’
Who acts: anyone, ‘ · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: shirt collar, encouragement · 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 (anyone, ‘), 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 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 beautiful | mark |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 collar | det |
| 13 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collar | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 shirt | punct |
| 15 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 encouragement | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 encouragement | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 encouragement | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 encouragement | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 encouragement | det |
| 21 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collar | appos |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 encouragement | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 encouragement | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 encouragement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | anyone | as you; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the shirt collar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | ‘ | that encouragement | enough property | 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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