The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 12
‘Good morning, my duckling,’ says the lady friend, ‘whither away so bold?’
What happens: say · To what, where: lady friend · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 duckling | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 duckling | nmod:poss |
| 6 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friend | compound |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bold | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 bold | punct |
| 15 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 bold | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 bold | advmod |
| 18 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 bold | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 bold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the lady friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
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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