The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 40
“That honey has got ants in it: throw it away,” she said, and when he brought her some more, she declared it was full of earth.
Who acts: honey, wife, man · What happens: get, throw away, say, bring, declare, be · To what, where: ants, bowlful, honey, more, wife · 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 (honey, wife, man), 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 got | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 honey | det |
| 3 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ants | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 throw | punct |
| 10 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 throw | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 throw | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throw | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brought | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 brought | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 more | det |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 brought | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 declared | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 declared | nsubj |
| 27 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 full | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 full | cop |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 declared | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 earth | case |
| 32 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 full | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | that honey | ants | bowlful | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ant=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | throw away in a quote | infinitive | honey | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | man | some more | wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination more=Theme | |||
| 5 | declare speech: other | past | wife | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | honey | of earth; full property | tree rules |
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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