The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 63
The Count grew pale, but he replied roughly, ‘Very good.
Who acts: Count · What happens: grow, reply
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Count), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Count | det |
| 2 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 replied | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 9 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 12 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Count | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Count | roughly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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