The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 188
“Ho, ho, ho!” said the new-comers.
Who acts: Ho · What happens: say · To what, where: new comers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho), 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 | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 2 | Ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 4 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ho | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ho | punct |
| 6 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ho | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 comers | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 comers | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 new | punct |
| 13 | comers | comer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ho and ho and ho | the new comers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comer=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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