The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 66
Then the Admiral said: ‘Oh! deaf and dumb is he?
Who acts: Admiral · What happens: say, be · To what, where: boatman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Admiral), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Admiral | det |
| 3 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 deaf | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 deaf | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 deaf | discourse |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dumb | cc |
| 11 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deaf | conj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 he | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 deaf | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Admiral | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | boatman | 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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