The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 30
‘There is capital ice and snow there!’ said the reindeer.
Who acts: capital ice · What happens: be, say · To what, where: reindeer · 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 (capital ice), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ice | amod |
| 5 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 snow | cc |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ice | conj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 snow | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ice | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reindeer | det |
| 13 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | capital ice and snow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the reindeer | 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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