More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 2
"What's that the birdie sings?" said the young prince.
Who acts: birdie, young prince · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birdie, young 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 | _ | 7 sings | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 sings | obj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sings | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 sings | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birdie | det |
| 6 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sings | nsubj |
| 7 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sings | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sings | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sings | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 prince | amod |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: express in a quote | present | the birdie | sing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the young prince | 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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