The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 82
He could never get in at that window again, Christian said; it was far too high up.
Who acts: remainder, Christian, window · What happens: not get in, say, be · To what, where: window · 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 (remainder, Christian, window), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 high | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 high | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 high | cop |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 high | advmod |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 high | advmod |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 high | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in | could | remainder | that window | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Christian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | window | far, high 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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