The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 139
“I played ninepins,” he answered, “and lost a few pence.”
Who acts: King · What happens: play, answer, lose · To what, where: ninepins, few pence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ninepins | ninepin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lost | cc |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pence | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pence | amod |
| 15 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | past | King | ninepins | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ninepin=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | a few pence | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pence=Eventuality |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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