The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 101
‘We shall see that he is just the same ragamuffin that he was before,’ said the girls, tossing their heads.
Who acts: We, Halvor · What happens: see, be, say, toss · To what, where: same ragamuffin, girls, heads · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Halvor), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 ragamuffin | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ragamuffin | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ragamuffin | cop |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 ragamuffin | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ragamuffin | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ragamuffin | amod |
| 11 | ragamuffin | ragamuffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 before | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 before | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 before | cop |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girls | det |
| 20 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tossing | punct |
| 22 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heads | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tossing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Halvor | the same ragamuffin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Halvor | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the girls | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | toss | gerund | girls's heads | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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