The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 107
“Hush,” said the fox in a mysterious manner.
Who acts: fox · What happens: say · To what, where: mysterious manner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 manner | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 manner | det |
| 10 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 manner | amod |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | a mysterious manner | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in manner=Manner |
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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