The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 112
(This was what she called Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius.)
Who acts: This, queen · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Mount · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, queen), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obj |
| 8 | Etna | Etna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mount | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Mount | cc |
| 10 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mount | conj |
| 11 | Vesuvius | Vesuvius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mount | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | past | queen | Mount and Mount | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mount=Recipient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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