The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 13
“Why,” said the King, “your wise answers astonish me, and you, Miranda.
Who acts: King, wise answers, your · What happens: say, astonish, answer · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wise answers, your), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 astonish | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 astonish | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 answers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 answers | amod |
| 12 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 astonish | nsubj |
| 13 | astonish | astonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 astonish | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 you | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 astonish | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Miranda | punct |
| 19 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 astonish | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | astonish in a quote | present | your wise answers | the King = king | you obl; Miranda obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | answer in a quote | your | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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