The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 58
‘I can talk because I was a Prince,’ said the Cricket.
Who acts: I · What happens: talk, be, say · To what, where: Prince, Cricket · 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 (I), 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 talk | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | aux |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 Prince | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Prince | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Prince | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Cricket | det |
| 14 | Cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | can | I | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | I | a Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Cricket | 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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