The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 66
“Yes, he has,” spake the third, “for she’s sitting beside him on the ship.”
Who acts: Princess · What happens: speak, sit · To what, where: third, ship · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Princess), 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 | _ | 8 spake | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 has | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spake | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 8 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 third | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 spake | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 sitting | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sitting | aux |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 spake | conj |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sitting | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ship | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ship | det |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spake | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | the third | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | Princess | the ship | beside Trusty | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
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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