The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 3, sentence 23
“Oh! look how those two there are fighting for the golden apple,” said the King’s son.
Who acts: two, those, son · What happens: look, be, fight, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, those, son), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 look | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fighting | advmod |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 fighting | nsubj |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 are | nsubj |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 are | expl |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fighting | parataxis |
| 10 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 look | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 apple | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 apple | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 apple | amod |
| 14 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fighting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 King | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | two | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | gerund | those | for the golden apple | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the King's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 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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