The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 57
‘Look at that white strand there; that is where we shall land,’ said the brother, pointing across the sea.
Who acts: that, we, brother · What happens: look, be, land, say, point · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, we, brother), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 strand | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 strand | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strand | amod |
| 6 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 strand | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 where | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 where | cop |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 Look | obl |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 land | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 land | aux |
| 14 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 where | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 brother | det |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pointing | punct |
| 21 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | advcl |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pointing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | at that white strand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at strand=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | land | shall | we | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | point | gerund | the brother not said here | the sea | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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