The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 20
Then turning to his youngest son he said:
Who acts: prince · What happens: turn, say · To what, where: youngest son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | 2 turning | advmod |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 son | acl:relcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 turning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | then | to prince's youngest son result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | prince's youngest son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Topic |
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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