The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 199
“Oh!” answered the girl, “I have to spin straw into gold, and haven’t a notion how it’s done.”
Who acts: girl · What happens: answer, have, spin, do · To what, where: straw, gold · 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 (girl), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 spin | mark |
| 13 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spin | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spin | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 notion | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 notion | det |
| 22 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 done | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux:pass |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the girl = girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spin in a quote | to-infinitive | the girl = girl not said here | straw | gold | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | straw | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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