The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 95
‘Wasp’s-nest, Wasp’s-nest, make a sally, Or Drakestail nevermore may rally.’
Who acts: Wasp’s, Drakestail · What happens: make, rally · To what, where: sally
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 (Wasp’s, Drakestail), 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 | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 2 | Wasp’s | Wasp's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 make | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wasp’s | punct |
| 4 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wasp’s | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nest | punct |
| 6 | Wasp’s | Wasp's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wasp’s | punct |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wasp’s | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sally | det |
| 12 | sally | sally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rally | punct |
| 14 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 rally | cc |
| 15 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rally | nsubj |
| 16 | nevermore | nevermore | ADV | _ | 18 rally | advmod |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 rally | aux |
| 18 | rally | rally | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | infinitive | Wasp’s and Wasp’s nest | a sally | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sally=Product | ||||
| 2 | rally | may | Drakestail | nevermore property | tree rules |
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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