The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 70
“Oh, I think that there is no name so beautiful as Sigurd,” cried she.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, be, cry · To what, where: Sigurd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 is | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 think | ccomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Sigurd | case |
| 14 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 beautiful | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cried | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | as Sigurd; beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Sigurd | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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