The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 64
The one croaked: “Ah, ha! so he’s bringing the Princess of the Golden Roof home.”
Who acts: one, Trusty · What happens: croak, bring · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Trusty), 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 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 croaked | nsubj |
| 3 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 croaked | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bringing | punct |
| 6 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 13 bringing | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ah | punct |
| 8 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 6 Ah | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ah | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 bringing | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bringing | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bringing | aux |
| 13 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 croaked | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bringing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 home | det |
| 18 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | amod |
| 19 | Roof | Roof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 home | compound |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Princess | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Princess | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | past | the one | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · progressive | Trusty | the Princess of the Golden Roof home | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
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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