The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 54
“Now, prince,” said the magpie, “the three bulrushes are behind that wall.”
Who acts: prince, three bulrushes · What happens: say, be · To what, where: magpie, wall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, three bulrushes), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magpie | det |
| 9 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wall | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wall | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bulrushes | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 bulrushes | nummod |
| 14 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wall | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wall | cop |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 wall | det |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 magpie | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | prince | the magpie | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent magpie=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the three bulrushes | that wall | tree rules |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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