The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 144
‘No,’ said the Moon, ‘that I can’t, for when I shone there, there was a cloud before me.’
Who acts: Moon, I, cloud · What happens: say, shine, be · 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 (Moon, I, cloud), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Moon | det |
| 7 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ca | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 ca | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ca | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ca | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 ca | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shone | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 shone | mark |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 shone | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 shone | nsubj |
| 18 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 shone | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shone | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cloud | det |
| 24 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 was | nsubj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 was | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shine | past | I | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a cloud | there | before me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location |
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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