The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 51
“She is not the least like her,” the kittens whispered among themselves.
Who acts: Peppina, kittens · What happens: not be, whisper · 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 (Peppina, kittens), 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 | _ | 8 her | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 her | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 her | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 her | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 least | det |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 her | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kittens | nmod:poss |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 her | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 her | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kittens | det |
| 12 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whispered | nsubj |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 themselves | case |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 whispered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Peppina | like Peppina | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Peppina's kittens | among kittens = kitten | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among themselves=Location |
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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