The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 240
‘Yes, father, it is she,’ replied Désiré with a sheepish look.
Who acts: beauty, father · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: creature
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 (beauty, father), 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 | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 father | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 she | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 she | cop |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 father | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Désiré | Désiré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 look | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 look | det |
| 15 | sheepish | sheepish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 look | amod |
| 16 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | beauty | creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | father | with a sheepish look | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with look=Eventuality |
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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