The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 165
The rogue of a boatman, who noticed all this, said softly to the nurse:
Who acts: boatman, rogue · What happens: notice, say · To what, where: this, nurse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boatman, rogue), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rogue | det |
| 2 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boatman | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boatman | det |
| 5 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rogue | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 noticed | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boatman | acl:relcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 this | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 noticed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rogue | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 nurse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nurse | det |
| 16 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | a boatman | this | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the rogue of a boatman | the nurse | softly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nurse=Recipient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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