The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 37
“It is my turn now to pretend to be dead,” cried the fox.
Who acts: larder, fox · What happens: be, pretend, cry · To what, where: turn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (larder, fox), 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 turn | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turn | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pretend | mark |
| 8 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dead | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dead | cop |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pretend | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | larder | my turn | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pretend in a quote | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the fox | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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