The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 14
But she said he had not passed that way yet, but he would soon come.
Who acts: Gerda, Kay · What happens: say, not pass, come · To what, where: Kay · 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 (Gerda, Kay), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 passed | advmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 passed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gerda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not pass | past · perfect · passive | Kay | yet | that way obl:unmarked | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | would | Kay | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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