The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 21
“Ha, ha! it is thou who eatest up our hay then,” thought the boy; “but I will stop that.”
Who acts: door, thou, boy · What happens: be, eat up, think, stop · To what, where: thou, hay, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, thou, boy), 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 | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 8 thou | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 8 thou | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 ha | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thou | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thou | cop |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 eatest | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 eatest | nsubj |
| 10 | eatest | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 eatest | compound:prt |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hay | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eatest | obj |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 eatest | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eatest | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 eatest | punct |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 stop | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 stop | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 stop | aux |
| 25 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 stop | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | door | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat up in a quote | present | thou | our hay | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | future | the boy = boy | that | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector that=Eventuality |
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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