The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 25
As he hesitated the Mermaid, who guessed his thoughts, said to him:
Who acts: King, Mermaid · What happens: hesitate, guess, say, think · To what, where: Mermaid, thoughts, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Mermaid), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 hesitated | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hesitated | nsubj |
| 3 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mermaid | det |
| 5 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hesitated | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 guessed | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 guessed | nsubj |
| 8 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mermaid | acl:relcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 guessed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hesitated | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | past | King | the Mermaid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | guess | past | the Mermaid | King's thoughts | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | think | King | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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