The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 24
But the ugly old Fairy only grunted and made no answer.
Who acts: ugly old Fairy · What happens: grunt, make · To what, where: answer
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (ugly old Fairy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 grunted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 3 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fairy | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fairy | amod |
| 5 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grunted | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 grunted | advmod |
| 7 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grunted | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 answer | det |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grunt | past | the ugly old Fairy | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the ugly old Fairy not said here | no answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/3/24/