The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 39
“What we have to say can be said at any time,” she answered.
Who acts: mother · What happens: say, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 have | obj |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | aux:pass |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | nsubj |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | can · present · passive | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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