The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 143
‘They are travelling about,’ said the robber girl.
Who acts: cheeks · What happens: travel, say · To what, where: robber girl · 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 (cheeks), 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 travelling | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 travelling | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 travelling | aux |
| 4 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 travelling | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelling | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 travelling | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 girl | compound |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present · progressive | cheeks = cheek | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the robber girl | tree rules |
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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