The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 29
‘We know! we know!’ twittered the sparrows.
Who acts: We · What happens: know, twitter · To what, where: sparrows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 twittered | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | ccomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 twittered | punct |
| 9 | twittered | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root | |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sparrows | det |
| 11 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 twittered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 twittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | past | the sparrows | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sparrow=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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