The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 115
‘When Kay hears that I am there he will come out at once and fetch me!’
Who acts: Kay, I · What happens: hear, be, come out, fetch · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, I), 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 hears | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 hears | advmod |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hears | nsubj |
| 4 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 there | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 come | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hears | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fetch | cc |
| 16 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fetch | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hears | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Kay | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come out | future | Kay | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fetch | infinitive | Kay not said here | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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