The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 35
“I can’t eat that,” she said, turning away in disgust.
Who acts: wife · What happens: not eat, say, turn away · To what, where: that, disgust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 turning | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 disgust | case |
| 15 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat in a quote | can | wife | that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn away | gerund | wife not said here | disgust | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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