The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 51
“Crazy blockheads!” snapped the dwarf; “what’s the good of calling anyone else?
Who acts: Crazy blockheads · What happens: snap, be, call · To what, where: dwarf, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crazy blockheads), 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 snapped | punct |
| 2 | Crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blockheads | amod |
| 3 | blockheads | blockhead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 snapped | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 blockheads | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 blockheads | punct |
| 6 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dwarf | det |
| 8 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snapped | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 snapped | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 good | obl |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 good | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 good | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snapped | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 calling | mark |
| 16 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 good | advcl |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 calling | obj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 anyone | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | past | Crazy blockheads | the dwarf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | gerund | anyone | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
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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