The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 180
‘Yes, I am so cold that my teeth are chattering,’ said another.
Who acts: I, teeth, cold · What happens: be, chatter, say · To what, where: another · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, teeth, cold), 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 | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 cold | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cold | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cold | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 cold | advmod |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 chattering | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chattering | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 chattering | aux |
| 12 | chattering | chatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cold | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chatter | present · progressive | my teeth | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | cold | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic |
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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