The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 28
‘You are a clever fellow!’ said the father, ‘and know your trade as well as your brother.
Who acts: You, your · What happens: be, say, know, trade · To what, where: clever fellow, father, trade · 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 (You, your), 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 fellow | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fellow | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fellow | det |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 trade | nmod:poss |
| 17 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 15 know | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a clever fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | your trade | as your brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trade=Stimulus as brother=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | trade | your | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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