The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 120
“It is called ‘Gunnfjoder,’ the ‘Battle Plume,’” answered Helga, “and ‘Gullfaxi’ means ‘Golden Mane.’
Who acts: Helga, Gullfaxi · What happens: call, answer, mean · To what, where: sword, Golden Mane · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, Gullfaxi), 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 called | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Gunnfjoder | punct |
| 6 | Gunnfjoder | Gunnfjoder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Plume | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 12 Plume | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Plume | det |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Battle | punct |
| 11 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Plume | compound |
| 12 | Plume | Plume | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Plume | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Plume | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | parataxis |
| 17 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 means | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 means | cc |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Gullfaxi | punct |
| 22 | Gullfaxi | Gullfaxi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 means | nsubj |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Gullfaxi | punct |
| 24 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Helga | parataxis |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Mane | punct |
| 26 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Mane | amod |
| 27 | Mane | Mane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 means | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | sword | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Helga | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | Gullfaxi | Golden Mane | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Topic |
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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