The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 49
“The Count Piro,” answered the fox.
Who acts: Count Piro · What happens: answer · To what, where: fox
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 (Count Piro), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Piro | det |
| 3 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Piro | compound |
| 4 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Piro | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Piro | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Count Piro | the fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality |
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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