The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 152
‘For now I, too, shall be able to ride to church,’ she said.
Who acts: woman · What happens: be, ride, say · To what, where: church · 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 (woman), 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 | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 now | case |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 able | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 now | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 now | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 able | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ride | mark |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 church | case |
| 14 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ride | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 able | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | church | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to church=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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