The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 40
“Dear me; what lovely pears!” he said to the youth.
Who acts: lovely pears · What happens: say · 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 (lovely pears), 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 Dear | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | parataxis |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Dear | iobj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | obj |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pears | amod |
| 7 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 pears | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pears | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | lovely pears | to the youth | 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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