The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 7
And as for what Christian said he saw, he had been drinking more wine than was good for him.
Who acts: Christian · What happens: say, see, drink, be · To what, where: more wine · 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 (Christian), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drinking | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drinking | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drinking | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 drinking | aux |
| 13 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 wine | amod |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drinking | obj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 good | case |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 good | cop |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drinking | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 good | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Christian | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Christian | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | drink | past · perfect · progressive | Christian | more wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | for Christian; good 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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