The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 14
‘I quite understand,’ replied Blanchette gaily.
Who acts: I, Blanchette · What happens: understand, reply
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Blanchette), 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 | _ | 4 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 understand | advmod |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Blanchette | Blanchette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Blanchette | gaily property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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