The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 58
“For nothing at all,” he answered; “just because it came into my head.”
Who acts: husband, much · What happens: answer, come · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, much), 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 nothing | case |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 answered | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | husband | for nothing | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | much | my head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_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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