The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 82
“A fairy gave them the power to speak,” replied Miranda.
Who acts: fairy, Miranda · What happens: give, speak, reply · To what, where: power, monkey · 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 (fairy, Miranda), 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 | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fairy | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 power | det |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 power | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | past | a fairy | the power | monkey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient power=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | a fairy not said here | the power not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Miranda | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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