The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 30
“I am so poor,” answered Felicia, “that a pot of pinks and a silver ring are my only possessions in the world.”
Who acts: Felicia, pot · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: only possessions, world · 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, pot), 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 poor | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 poor | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 poor | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 poor | advmod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answered | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 poor | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 poor | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 possessions | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 possessions | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 possessions | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pot | det |
| 14 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 possessions | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pinks | case |
| 16 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pot | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ring | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 19 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ring | amod |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pot | conj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 possessions | cop |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 possessions | amod |
| 24 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Felicia | appos |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 possessions | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Felicia | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Felicia | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Felicia | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a pot of pinks and a silver ring | my only possessions | the world | tree rules |
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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