The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 85
“Yes, that is a good plan,” said the wife; and Abu Nowas set out.
Who acts: that, wife, Abu · What happens: be, say, set out · To what, where: good plan · 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, wife, 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 | _ | 8 plan | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 plan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 plan | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plan | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plan | amod |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plan | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 plan | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wife | det |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Abu | cc |
| 16 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj |
| 17 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Abu | flat |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | a good plan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set out | past | Abu | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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