The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 9
“Blauvor,” she replied “and my daughter is called Laufer”; and then she inquired the name of the minister, and of the king his master.
Who acts: Blauvor, daughter · What happens: reply, call, inquire, name · To what, where: king master, daughter, name, minister · 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 (Blauvor, daughter), 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 | _ | 2 Blauvor | punct |
| 2 | Blauvor | Blauvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blauvor | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Blauvor | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | Laufer | Laufer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Laufer | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquired | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inquired | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 inquired | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 inquired | nsubj |
| 19 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inquired | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 minister | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 minister | det |
| 24 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 master | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 master | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 master | compound |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 master | nmod:poss |
| 31 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Blauvor | name's king master | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present · passive | my daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | daughter | the name of the minister | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | |||
| 4 | name | the minister | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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