The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 223
“Is your name, perhaps, Sheepshanks Cruickshanks, Spindleshanks?” but he always replied: “That’s not my name.”
Who acts: man, That · What happens: be, reply, not be · To what, where: name · 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 (man, That), 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 | _ | 4 name | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sheepshanks | punct |
| 6 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 8 Sheepshanks | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sheepshanks | punct |
| 8 | Sheepshanks | sheepshank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 name | appos |
| 9 | Cruickshanks | Cruickshanks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sheepshanks | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Spindleshanks | punct |
| 11 | Spindleshanks | Spindleshanks | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cruickshanks | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Spindleshanks | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cruickshanks | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 replied | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 replied | advmod |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
| 20 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 name | nsubj |
| 21 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 name | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 name | advmod |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | man | always property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | That | my name | tree rules |
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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