The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 3
‘What nonsense is this?’ said she; ‘why should they be green?’
Who acts: wife, eyes · What happens: be, say · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, eyes), 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 | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 this | nsubj |
| 3 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 this | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 this | cop |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 green | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 green | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 green | advmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 green | aux |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 green | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 green | cop |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 green | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 green | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | should | eyes = eye | green property | 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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