The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 166
But they were so friendly and asked her what her name was in such a kind way, that she replied:
Who acts: dwarfs, name, SNOWDROP · What happens: be, ask, reply, name · To what, where: SNOWDROP, kind way
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, name, SNOWDROP), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 friendly | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 friendly | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friendly | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 friendly | advmod |
| 5 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friendly | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 way | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 way | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 replied | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 replied | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 replied | nsubj |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 friendly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dwarfs = dwarf | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | SNOWDROP | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | SNOWDROP's name | such kind way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | SNOWDROP | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | name | SNOWDROP | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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