The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 58
‘I think--I know I think--it might be little Kay, but now he has forgotten you for the princess!’
Who acts: I, death, Kay · What happens: think, know, be, forget · To what, where: little Kay, you · 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 (I, death, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kay | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Kay | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 Kay | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Kay | cop |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Kay | amod |
| 14 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgotten | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 forgotten | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 forgotten | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forgotten | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | infinitive | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | might | death | little Kay | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forget | present · perfect | Kay | you | now | for the princess | 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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