The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 55

She showed them the peacock, and asked what it was, and they answered that it was a bird which people sometimes ate.

Who acts: Rosette, peacock, eyes, people · What happens: show, ask, be, answer, eat · To what, where: eyes, bird · 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 (Rosette, peacock, eyes, people), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peacock	det
5	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 showed	parataxis
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 asked	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 what	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 showed	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 bird	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bird	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bird	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	ccomp
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 ate	obj
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ate	nsubj
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 ate	advmod
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bird	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	Rosette	eyes = eye		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient peacock=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	peacock			tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	eyes = eye			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	peacock	a bird		tree rules
6	eat	past	people	a bird	sometimes property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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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