The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 160
‘Madam,’ they answered, ‘we are sent for an insignificant little person called Delicia.’
Who acts: guards · What happens: answer, send, call · To what, where: we, insignificant little person · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (guards), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Madam | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 person | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 14 | insignificant | insignificant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 person | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 person | amod |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 person | acl |
| 18 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | guards = guard | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | present · passive | we | for a insignificant little person | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a insignificant little person not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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