The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 9
The youth answered that he was quite content to be goose-boy; and that was how he got his nickname of Paperarello.
Who acts: youth, that, boy · What happens: answer, be, get, nickname · To what, where: goose boy, nickname, Paperarello · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, that, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 content | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 content | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 content | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 content | advmod |
| 8 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 boy | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 boy | cop |
| 11 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 goose | punct |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 content | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 got | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 how | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 how | cop |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 got | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nickname | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Paperarello | case |
| 24 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 nickname | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | youth | content property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | youth not said here | goose boy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | past | youth | boy's nickname of Paperarello | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nickname=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | nickname | boy | Paperarello | nom nickname «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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