The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 7
‘No,’ said the dappled Colt once more; ‘here I must stay for another year.
Who acts: dappled Colt, I · What happens: say, dapple, stay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dappled Colt, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Colt | det |
| 7 | dappled | dapple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Colt | amod |
| 8 | Colt | Colt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stay | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stay | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stay | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stay | aux |
| 16 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stay | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dappled Colt | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dapple | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stay | must | I | here | year | vn exist-47.1 «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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