The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 34
“Oh, there is really nothing to cry about,” answered the wood-pigeon soothingly.
Who acts: nothing, wood pigeon · What happens: be, cry, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, wood pigeon), 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 | _ | 13 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 nothing | advmod |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cry | mark |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nothing | acl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 cry | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pigeon | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pigeon | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wood | punct |
| 17 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 18 | soothingly | soothingly | ADV | _ | 13 answered | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | about property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the wood pigeon | soothingly property | 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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