The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 102
‘I don’t think that will be child’s play,’ said the Prince.
Who acts: I, Prince · What happens: not think, be, say · To what, where: child play · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Prince), 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 play | det |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 child | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 child | cop |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 play | compound |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 child | case |
| 11 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | that child play | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot play=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | 's child | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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