The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 105
Then, turning to Felicia, she said:
Who acts: Felicia · What happens: turn, say · To what, where: Felicia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicia), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turning | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Felicia | case |
| 5 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turning | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turning | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Felicia not said here | Felicia | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to felicia=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Felicia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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