The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 20
‘And why should I do all this?’ said Petru.
Who acts: I, Petru · What happens: do, say · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Petru), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 do | advmod |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 this | det:predet |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | I | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Petru | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how 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 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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