The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 79
‘To-night your legs will be too short,’ he thought, and pulled at the oars.
Who acts: legs, remainder · What happens: be, think, pull · 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 (legs, remainder), 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 | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 short | obl |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 short | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 short | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 short | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 short | advmod |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 short | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pulled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pulled | cc |
| 17 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 oars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oars | det |
| 20 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pulled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | your legs | night | short property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | remainder | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull | participle | at the oars | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at oar=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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