The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 15
“She is not coming back any more,” he cried.
Who acts: sister, anxiety · What happens: not come back, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, anxiety), 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 coming | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 coming | advmod |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 coming | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come back in a quote | present · progressive | sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | anxiety | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: 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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