The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 57
Isn’t a Grasshopper as good as a Cricket?’ said she.
Who acts: Grasshopper, Fairy · What happens: not be, say · 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 (Grasshopper, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 good | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Grasshopper | det |
| 4 | Grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 Cricket | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Cricket | det |
| 9 | Cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a Grasshopper | as a Cricket; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fairy | 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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