The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 103
“Nurse,” said she, “we have been gazing at these wonders only too long.
Who acts: princess, we · What happens: say, gaze · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, we), 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 | _ | 2 Nurse | punct |
| 2 | Nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nurse | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nurse | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gazing | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gazing | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 gazing | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gazing | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 gazing | aux |
| 12 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 wonders | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 wonders | det |
| 15 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gazing | obl |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 gazing | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gaze in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | we | at this wonders; long property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wonder=Theme |
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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