The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 33
‘O Kay, my little Kay!’ sobbed Gerda.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: sob · To what, where: Gerda
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 (Kay), 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 | _ | 10 sobbed | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Kay | discourse |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sobbed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kay | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Kay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Kay | amod |
| 7 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Kay | appos |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kay | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kay | punct |
| 10 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sobbed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | past | Kay | Gerda | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme |
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/pg5615/10/33/