The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 13
‘This is one of the nicest things I took from the knight,’ said the Giant.
Who acts: This, I · What happens: be, take, say · To what, where: one, nicest things, Giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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 one | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 said | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 things | det |
| 7 | nicest | nice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 knight | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 things | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 things | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Giant | det |
| 18 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 | This | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | I | the nicest things not said here | from the knight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from knight=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Giant | of the nicest things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=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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