The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 46
‘No, you have undertaken to keep guard to-night as well,’ said the little man, ‘and you must attend to that.’
Who acts: you · What happens: undertake, keep, say, attend · To what, where: guard, little man · 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 (you), 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 undertaken | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 undertaken | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 undertaken | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 undertaken | aux |
| 6 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 undertaken | xcomp |
| 9 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 8 keep | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 undertaken | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ‘ | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 attend | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 attend | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 attend | aux |
| 26 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 that | case |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 attend | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | present · perfect | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | guard | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little man and ‘ | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | attend | must | you | to that | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to that=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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