The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 50
‘I am walking about in search of a place,’ said Cinderlad.
Who acts: I, Cinderlad · What happens: walk, say, search · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cinderlad), 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 walking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 search | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 search | case |
| 7 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 search | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present · progressive | I | about search of a place | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about search=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Cinderlad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | search | a place | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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