The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 78
The old fairy whistled twice, then she cried:
Who acts: old fairy · What happens: whistle, cry · To what, where: old fairy
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fairy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fairy | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fairy | acl |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 whistled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cried | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | participle | the old fairy not said here | twice property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the old fairy | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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