The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 42
“Nothing less than to look after two hundred pigs,” was the reply.
What happens: look, be · To what, where: reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 less | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 less | nsubj |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reply | advcl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 pigs | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | compound |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pigs | nummod |
| 10 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reply | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reply | det |
| 15 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 less | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 less | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | after hundred pigs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | the reply | 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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