The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 10
And Drakestail is off again, all spruce and fresh, still singing: ‘Quack, quack, quack, when shall I have my money back?’
Who acts: Drakestail, I · What happens: be, sing, have back · To what, where: spruce, Quack, money
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spruce | cc |
| 2 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spruce | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spruce | cop |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 again | advmod |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 spruce | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spruce | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 spruce | det |
| 8 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fresh | cc |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spruce | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 singing | punct |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 singing | advmod |
| 13 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 spruce | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Quack | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Quack | punct |
| 16 | Quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 singing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quack | punct |
| 18 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Quack | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 quack | punct |
| 20 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Quack | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 have | advmod |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Quack | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 money | nmod:poss |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 have | advmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 spruce | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 spruce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Drakestail | all spruce | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Drakestail not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Drakestail not said here | Quack and quack and quack | still | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | have back | shall | I | my money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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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