The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 73
“Abu Nowas, the jester,” replied the Sultana.
Who acts: Abu · What happens: reply · To what, where: Sultana
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 (Abu), 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 | _ | 2 Abu | punct |
| 2 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Abu | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jester | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jester | det |
| 6 | jester | jester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Abu | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abu | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Abu | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultana | det |
| 11 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Abu | the Sultana | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultana=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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