The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 68
“Yes, your story was true after all; it is a wonderful thing,” said the herdsman.
Who acts: story, wonderful thing · What happens: be, say · To what, where: wonderful thing, herdsman · 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: who acts (story, wonderful thing), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 true | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 true | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | advcl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 true | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 herdsman | det |
| 20 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | your story | after all | true property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | story | a wonderful thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a wonderful thing | the herdsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent herdsman=Topic |
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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