The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 145
‘Oh, the crow is dead!’ answered the robber-girl.
Who acts: crow · What happens: be, answer · 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 (crow), 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 dead | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 dead | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crow | det |
| 5 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 12 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 robber | punct |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the crow | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the robber girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/10/145/