The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 197
“Now, what shall we do?” said the two little animals to each other.
Who acts: we, two little animals · What happens: do, say · 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 (we, two little animals), 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 do | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 animals | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 animals | nummod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | amod |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 animals | obl |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall | we | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the two little animals | 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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