The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 89
This time it was a dish of milk she poured upon the ashes, saying:
Who acts: usual, witch · What happens: be, pour, say · To what, where: dish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (usual, witch), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poured | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dish | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dish | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dish | det |
| 6 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 milk | case |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dish | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 poured | nsubj |
| 10 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 ashes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ashes | det |
| 13 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 poured | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 poured | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | usual | a dish | of milk | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pour | past | witch | time | upon the ashes | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | witch not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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