The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 16
“Thrice is lucky,” said he to himself; “I’ll have another shot yet.”
Who acts: Thrice, Niels · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: Niels, shot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thrice, Niels), 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 lucky | punct |
| 2 | Thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lucky | cop |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lucky | acl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lucky | parataxis |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 shot | det |
| 17 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 have | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Thrice | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Niels | Niels | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | future | Niels | another shot | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Patient |
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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