The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 111
‘It is nothing,’ said Lina; ‘only the cry of the owl which roosts in the turrets of the castle.’
Who acts: branch, nothing, owl · What happens: be, say, roost, cry · To what, where: nothing, turrets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branch, nothing, owl), 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Lina | Lina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 cry | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cry | det |
| 13 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 owl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owl | det |
| 16 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cry | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 roosts | nsubj |
| 18 | roosts | roost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 owl | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 turrets | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 turrets | det |
| 21 | turrets | turret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 roosts | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turrets | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | branch | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | roost | present | the owl | the turrets of the castle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in turret=Location | ||||
| 4 | cry | the owl | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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