The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 56
Do you think you have?’ cried the little girl, and she almost squeezed the crow to death as she kissed him.
Who acts: you, girl · What happens: think, have, cry, squeeze, kiss · To what, where: little girl, crow, death, 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 (you, girl), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 squeezed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 squeezed | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 squeezed | nsubj |
| 15 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 squeezed | advmod |
| 16 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crow | det |
| 18 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 squeezed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 squeezed | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 kissed | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kissed | nsubj |
| 23 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 squeezed | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kissed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the little girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||||
| 4 | squeeze | past | girl | the crow | death | almost property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crow=Theme to death=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | kiss | past | girl | Kay | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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