The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 92
“Oh, indeed!” said the South Wind, “is that she?
Who acts: South Wind · What happens: say, be · 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 (South Wind), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wind | det |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wind | compound |
| 10 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Wind | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | ADP | _ | 15 she | case |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 is | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the South Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | the South Wind not said here | that girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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