The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 44
“Oh! it doesn’t _lack_ anything,” replied the Fairy.
Who acts: nose, lack · What happens: not lack, reply · To what, where: Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose, lack), 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 | _ | 8 lack | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 lack | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lack | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lack | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 lack | advmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 lack | punct |
| 8 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 anything | punct |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 lack | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lack | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lack | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lack in a quote | present · do-support | nose | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | lack | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=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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