The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 59
‘Are you there?’ it screamed; ‘now I’ll catch you.’
Who acts: you, Sentry, I · What happens: be, scream, catch · To what, where: you · 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, Sentry, 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 | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 screamed | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 screamed | nsubj |
| 8 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 catch | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 catch | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 catch | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 catch | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 catch | aux |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 screamed | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 catch | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 catch | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | Sentry | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | catch | future | I | you | now | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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