The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 91
‘Indeed, she is really a hundred times as pretty as that,’ said her brothers.
Who acts: leaf · What happens: be, say · To what, where: hundred, brothers · 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 (leaf), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 hundred | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hundred | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hundred | cop |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 hundred | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hundred | det |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 as | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 pretty | advmod |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 13 that | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | leaf | a hundred | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | leaf's brothers | as that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=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 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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