The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 86
and receiving no reply, it continued:
Who acts: reply · What happens: receive, continue · To what, where: reply
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reply), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 receiving | cc |
| 2 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 continued | advcl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 reply | det |
| 4 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 receiving | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 receiving | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | gerund | reply not said here | no reply | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | reply | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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