The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 26
‘Why yes, Madam, here it is,’ said Jack-the-Chatterer, holding up the spit, where all the pheasants and partridges were frizzling.
Who acts: Madam, pheasants · What happens: be, say, hold up, frizzle · To what, where: Madam, spit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, pheasants), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Madam | advmod |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 Madam | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 5 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Madam | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 is | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Madam | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Madam | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Chatterer | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Chatterer | det |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 the | punct |
| 17 | Chatterer | Chatterer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Jack | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 holding | punct |
| 19 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 holding | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spit | det |
| 22 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holding | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 frizzling | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 frizzling | advmod |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 pheasants | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pheasants | det |
| 27 | pheasants | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 frizzling | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 partridges | cc |
| 29 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pheasants | conj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 frizzling | aux |
| 31 | frizzling | frizzle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 holding | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Madam | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold up | gerund | Madam not said here | the spit | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | frizzle | past · progressive | all pheasants and partridges | tree rules |
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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