The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 26
‘Rubbish, do you call it, Madam Grumbly?’ cried the King.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: call, cry · To what, where: Rubbish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King), 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 | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 2 | Rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rubbish | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Madam | punct |
| 9 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 call | xcomp |
| 10 | Grumbly | Grumbly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Madam | flat |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | you | Rubbish | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme it=Result | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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