The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 36
“No, madam,” answered Felicia; “my brother ate all the supper there was.”
Who acts: madam, brother · What happens: answer, eat, be · To what, where: Felicia, supper · 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 (madam, brother), 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 | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ate | nsubj |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 supper | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 supper | det |
| 16 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ate | obj |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ate | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | madam | Felicia | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent felicia=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | past | my brother | all supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | past | my brother not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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