The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 57
‘That’s on account of my night-cap, child,’ replies the Wolf.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: account, Wolf
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 (That), 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 | _ | 15 replies | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 account | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 account | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 account | case |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replies | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cap | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cap | nmod:poss |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cap | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 night | punct |
| 10 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 account | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cap | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 account | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 replies | punct |
| 15 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wolf | det |
| 17 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replies | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | account | of my night cap and child | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | present | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=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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