The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 95
So one fine morning Drakestail, very spruce and fresh, takes the road, singing: ‘Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back?’
Who acts: one fine morning, I · What happens: take, sing, get back · To what, where: road, money
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one fine morning, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 takes | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 5 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spruce | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 spruce | advmod |
| 8 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Drakestail | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fresh | cc |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spruce | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 12 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 singing | punct |
| 16 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 takes | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Quack | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Quack | punct |
| 19 | Quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 quack | punct |
| 21 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Quack | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 quack | punct |
| 23 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Quack | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 get | advmod |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 get | nsubj |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Quack | conj |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 money | nmod:poss |
| 30 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 get | advmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 takes | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | one fine morning | the road | Quack and quack and quack obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | one fine morning not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get back | shall | I | my money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
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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