The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 91
“At any rate half of him is mine,” replied the Queen, “and what good can the other half do you?
Who acts: Queen, other half · What happens: be, reply, do · To what, where: Queen, rate half, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Queen, other half), 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 | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 half | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 half | det |
| 4 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 half | compound |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 replied | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 half | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mine | cop |
| 9 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 half | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 good | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 good | nsubj |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 half | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 half | amod |
| 23 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 do | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Queen not said here | the Queen = queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | the Queen | any rate half of death | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | the other half | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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