The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 6
I will eat her!’ said the old robber-queen, and she drew her long knife, which glittered horribly.
Who acts: I, old robber queen, Gerda, long knife · What happens: eat, say, draw, glitter · To what, where: Gerda, long knife · 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 (I, old robber queen, Gerda, long knife), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 queen | amod |
| 10 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 queen | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 robber | punct |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drew | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drew | nsubj |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 knife | amod |
| 19 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 glittered | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 glittered | nsubj |
| 22 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 knife | acl:relcl |
| 23 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 22 glittered | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | future | I | Gerda | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old robber queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | Gerda | Gerda's long knife | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | glitter | past | Gerda's long knife | horribly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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