The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 21
The boy was proud, and spoke without thinking:
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, speak, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proud | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | cop |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spoke | cc |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | parataxis |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 thinking | mark |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 spoke | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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