The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 129
“Yes, noble Sultan; it is the wife,” replied the porter.
Who acts: door, wife · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: wife, porter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, wife), 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 | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 wife | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sultan | punct |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sultan | amod |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wife | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 porter | det |
| 15 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | door | the wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the wife | the porter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent porter=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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