The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 39
“Oh! you have a daughter,” cried the Yellow Dwarf (who was so called because he _was_ a dwarf and had such a yellow face, and lived in the orange tree).
Who acts: you, Yellow Dwarf · What happens: have, cry, call, live · To what, where: daughter, dwarf, Yellow Dwarf, yellow face, orange tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Yellow Dwarf), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dwarf | det |
| 12 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Dwarf | amod |
| 13 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 called | advmod |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Dwarf | acl |
| 19 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 he | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 called | obl |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 _ | cop |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dwarf | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dwarf | det |
| 25 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 face | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 face | det |
| 30 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 face | amod |
| 31 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lived | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lived | cc |
| 34 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 37 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 tree | amod |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lived | obl |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 lived | punct |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Yellow Dwarf | a dwarf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | the Yellow Dwarf | because Dwarf | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the Yellow Dwarf not said here | such yellow face | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 5 | live | past | the orange tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=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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