The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 206
“Which of us deserves the most credit?” they cried all at once.
Who acts: mice · What happens: deserve, cry · To what, where: credit · 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 (mice), 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 deserves | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 deserves | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Which | obl |
| 5 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 credit | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 credit | advmod |
| 8 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserves | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserves | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserves | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserves | parataxis |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 cried | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 cried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve in a quote | present | the credit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | mice = mouse | all property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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