The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 45
‘I’ve leave to go where I please,’ said the smith, but at the same time he noticed that he could not move a foot.
Who acts: I, Christian · What happens: leave, go, say, notice, not move · To what, where: I, smith, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Christian), 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 leave | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | 've | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | xcomp |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 I | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 go | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 smith | det |
| 14 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 noticed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 noticed | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 noticed | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 noticed | nsubj |
| 22 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 move | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 move | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 move | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 move | advmod |
| 27 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 noticed | ccomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 foot | det |
| 29 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 move | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the smith | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | notice | past | Christian | time | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not move | could | Christian | a foot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
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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