The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 40
‘Well, that will be the best thing to do for the present,’ said his friend.
Who acts: that, friend · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: best thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (that, friend), 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 | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 thing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | acl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 present | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 present | det |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | that | the best thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | King's friend not said here | for the present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King's friend | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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