The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 113
The Turkey-maiden answered proudly:
What happens: answer
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 2 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 maiden | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turkey | punct |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 maiden | acl |
| 6 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | participle | proudly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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