The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 115
‘We have come at a good rate,’ she said; ‘but you are almost frozen.
Who acts: We, queen · What happens: come, say, freeze · To what, where: good rate, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, queen), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 rate | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rate | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rate | amod |
| 8 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 frozen | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 frozen | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 frozen | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 frozen | aux:pass |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 frozen | advmod |
| 19 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | We | a good rate | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | freeze | present · passive | you | almost property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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