The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 78
“It is the most beautiful work I have ever seen,” said he, taking up a bit.
Who acts: silk, I, work · What happens: be, see, say, take up · To what, where: beautiful work, bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silk, I, work), 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 work | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 work | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 work | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 work | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 work | amod |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 work | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taking | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 taking | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bit | det |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | silk | the beautiful work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | I | the beautiful work not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | take up | gerund | work | a bit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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