The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 34
But Father Gatto replied: “No, no; you have deserved something better than that.”
Who acts: Father, you · What happens: reply, deserve · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | Gatto | Gatto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Father | flat |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 deserved | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 deserved | punct |
| 7 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 deserved | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 9 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 No | discourse |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 deserved | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 deserved | aux |
| 13 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 deserved | obj |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 something | amod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 better | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | deserve in a quote | present · perfect | you | something | tree rules |
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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