The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 27
“‘Treasures!’ said the fairy, disdainfully.
Who acts: Treasures · What happens: say · To what, where: fairy · 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 (Treasures), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Treasures | punct |
| 3 | Treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Treasures | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Treasures | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairy | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 disdainfully | punct |
| 10 | disdainfully | disdainfully | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Treasures | the fairy | disdainfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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