The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 55
“You are great useless creatures,” said he, “who couldn’t even outwit that little dwarf.
Who acts: You, great useless creatures, Paul · What happens: be, say, not outwit · To what, where: great useless creatures, little dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, great useless creatures, Paul), 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 | _ | 6 creatures | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 creatures | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 creatures | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creatures | amod |
| 5 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creatures | amod |
| 6 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 creatures | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 creatures | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 outwit | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 outwit | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 outwit | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 outwit | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 outwit | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 outwit | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 outwit | advmod |
| 17 | outwit | outwit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 dwarf | mark |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dwarf | amod |
| 20 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 outwit | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | great useless creatures | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | great useless creatures | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not outwit in a quote | could | Paul | little dwarf | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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