The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 86
“A thousand misfortunes, Sir Sheep,” she answered.
Who acts: thousand misfortunes · What happens: answer
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 (thousand misfortunes), 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 | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 misfortunes | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 misfortunes | nummod |
| 4 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sheep | punct |
| 6 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sheep | compound |
| 7 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 misfortunes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 misfortunes | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 misfortunes | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a thousand misfortunes and Sir Sheep | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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