The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 95
'A thousand gold pieces,' replied the goldsmith.
Who acts: thousand gold pieces · What happens: reply · To what, where: goldsmith
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand gold pieces), 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 | _ | 5 pieces | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thousand | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 pieces | nummod |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pieces | compound |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pieces | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pieces | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goldsmith | det |
| 10 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | thousand gold pieces | the goldsmith | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Topic |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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