The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 32
But she answered: ‘Here the tapers are too bright and the light too strong.
Who acts: woman, tapers, light · What happens: answer, be
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, tapers, light), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 bright | punct |
| 6 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 bright | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tapers | det |
| 8 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bright | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bright | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 bright | advmod |
| 11 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 strong | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strong | nsubj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 strong | advmod |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bright | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the tapers | here | bright property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | the light | 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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