The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 95
This was repeated for two nights, and on the third the Duck said to the Scullion:
What happens: repeat, say · To what, where: This, Scullion · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeated | aux:pass |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 nights | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nights | nummod |
| 6 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 repeated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 third | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 third | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 said | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Duck | det |
| 13 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 third | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeated | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Scullion | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Scullion | det |
| 17 | Scullion | Scullion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past · passive | This | night | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Scullion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to scullion=Recipient |
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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