More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 139
"A fishing," said the princess in the utmost astonishment: "Nay, shepherd, there is no fish-pond in the hall."
Who acts: fishing, fish pond · What happens: say, be · To what, where: princess, utmost astonishment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishing, fish pond), 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 | _ | 3 fishing | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fishing | det |
| 3 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fishing | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fishing | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 astonishment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 astonishment | det |
| 11 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 astonishment | amod |
| 12 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nay | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nay | punct |
| 15 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shepherd | punct |
| 17 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Nay | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 pond | det |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pond | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fish | punct |
| 24 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hall | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hall | det |
| 27 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pond | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a fishing | the princess | the utmost astonishment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | no fish pond in the hall | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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