The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 72
Indeed,’ said the crow, ‘you can quite believe me.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, believe · To what, where: crow, 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 (you), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crow | det |
| 6 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 believe | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 12 believe | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | aux |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 believe | advmod |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 believe | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | can | you | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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