The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 25
The woman exclaimed: “What a donkey you are! that isn’t your kitten, that’s the morning sun shining on the chimney.”
Who acts: woman, you, that, morning sun · What happens: exclaim, not be, be, shine · To what, where: kitten, morning sun, chimney · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, you, that, morning sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 donkey | punct |
| 6 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 donkey | det |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 donkey | det |
| 8 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kitten | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kitten | cop |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 kitten | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 kitten | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kitten | cop |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 kitten | advmod |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kitten | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 donkey | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sun | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 sun | nsubj |
| 19 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sun | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sun | compound |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 donkey | conj |
| 23 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 sun | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 chimney | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chimney | det |
| 26 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shining | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 donkey | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 donkey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | you | your kitten | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the morning sun | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine in a quote | gerund | the morning sun not said here | the chimney | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chimney=Location |
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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