The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 42
“What more is there to tell you?” replied the Mermaid.
Who acts: Mermaid · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: you · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 is | obj |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | cop |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mermaid | det |
| 13 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | tell property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | the Mermaid | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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