The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 69
The seventh Simon answered from the ship: “We are peaceful people.
Who acts: seventh Simon, We · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: ship, peaceful people · 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 (seventh Simon, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Simon | det |
| 2 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Simon | amod |
| 3 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ship | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 people | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 people | cop |
| 12 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 answered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the seventh Simon | the ship | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | We | peaceful people | 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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