The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 38
When he answered firmly that he was, she called up the appearance of the Princess Sunbeam to the other end of the gallery, and said:
Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: answer, be, call up, say · To what, where: appearance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Prince, Fairy), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 answered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | advcl |
| 4 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 appearance | det |
| 13 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Sunbeam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sunbeam | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sunbeam | compound |
| 17 | Sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appearance | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 end | amod |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sunbeam | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gallery | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gallery | det |
| 24 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Prince | firmly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call up speech: assert | past | Fairy | the appearance of the Princess Sunbeam to the other end of the gallery | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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