The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 42
It IS a pike--you needn’t attempt to say it’s not.
Who acts: piece, you · What happens: be, not attempt, not say · To what, where: pike · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pike | nsubj |
| 2 | IS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pike | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pike | det |
| 4 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 attempt | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 attempt | nsubj |
| 7 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 attempt | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 attempt | advmod |
| 9 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pike | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 attempt | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ’s | nsubj |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 ’s | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | piece | a pike | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not attempt | present | you | a pike not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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