The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 22
“‘Why, Ragotte,’ I said, for that was the fairy’s name, ‘what is the meaning of all this?
Who acts: Wonderful Sheep, that, Ragotte · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Ragotte, meaning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wonderful Sheep, that, Ragotte), 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 | _ | 3 Why | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Why | punct |
| 3 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ragotte | punct |
| 5 | Ragotte | Ragotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Why | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ragotte | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 name | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 fairy | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fairy | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fairy | det |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | compound |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 fairy | case |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meaning | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 meaning | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 meaning | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 meaning | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 meaning | det |
| 23 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Ragotte | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 this | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 this | det:predet |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 meaning | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Wonderful Sheep = sheep | Ragotte not said here | for fairy name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ragotte=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | that | 's the fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Ragotte | the meaning | of this | tree rules |
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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