The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 50
“This water tastes of rushes,” he exclaimed, “go and get some fresh.”
Who acts: water · What happens: taste, exclaim, go, get · To what, where: fresh · 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 (water), 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 | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tastes | nsubj |
| 4 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rushes | case |
| 6 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tastes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushes | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tastes | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 fresh | det |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tastes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste in a quote | present | this water | of rushes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | water | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | some fresh | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fresh=Stimulus |
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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