The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 61
“I’m not such a fool,” screamed the dwarf.
Who acts: dwarf · What happens: not be, scream · To what, where: fool · 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 (dwarf), 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 | _ | 10 screamed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 screamed | parataxis |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ’m | advmod |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fool | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fool | det |
| 7 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’m | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 10 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dwarf | det |
| 12 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 screamed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be in a quote | present | the dwarf = dwarf | such fool | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fool=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the dwarf | 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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