The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 66
“That is bad news,” replied the Sultan; “I must get you another wife.”
Who acts: That, bad news · What happens: be, reply, get · To what, where: bad news, Sultan, wife, you · 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 (That, bad news), 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 | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 news | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 news | cop |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 news | amod |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 wife | det |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | bad news | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | bad news | the Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | must | bad news = news | another wife | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary wife=Theme |
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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