The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 26
“In the cradle yonder, and I think she is dead,” replied the father sadly.
Who acts: I, look, father · What happens: think, be, reply · To what, where: cradle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, look, father), 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 | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cradle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cradle | det |
| 4 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 think | obl |
| 5 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 4 cradle | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 think | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 replied | advcl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dead | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 think | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 think | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 father | det |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 15 replied | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | the cradle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | look | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the father | sadly property | vn respond-113 «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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