The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 79
“Well, yes; to mine, of course, to my own,” cried the shepherd, and gently tapped his breast.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: cry, tap · To what, where: own, breast
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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 | _ | 7 mine | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 mine | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 mine | discourse |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 mine | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 own | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 course | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 course | case |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mine | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 own | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 own | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 own | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 own | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 own | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shepherd | det |
| 19 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tapped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tapped | cc |
| 22 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 23 tapped | advmod |
| 23 | tapped | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 breast | nmod:poss |
| 25 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tapped | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the shepherd | my own | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to own=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tap | past | the shepherd not said here | shepherd's breast | gently property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent breast=Location |
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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