The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 179
How in the world can they call me ugly?
Who acts: gypsies · What happens: call · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gypsies), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 call | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 world | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | obl |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 call | aux |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 call | obj |
| 9 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 call | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | can | gypsies = gypsy | me | ugly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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