The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 124
My sweetheart knows a little back-stairs which leads to the sleeping-room, and she knows where to find the key.’
Who acts: sweetheart · What happens: know, lead, find · To what, where: little back stairs, key · 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 (sweetheart), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stairs | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stairs | amod |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stairs | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 back | punct |
| 8 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knows | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 leads | nsubj |
| 10 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 13 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 room | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sleeping | punct |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leads | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knows | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knows | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knows | nsubj |
| 19 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | conj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 find | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 knows | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 key | det |
| 24 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | My sweetheart | a little back stairs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lead | present | to the sleeping room | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to room=Patient | |||||
| 3 | know | present | sweetheart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the key | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Topic |
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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