The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 55
‘Oh, an old neighbour of mine, who is half silly,’ she replied.
Who acts: old neighbour, witch · What happens: be, reply
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 (old neighbour, witch), 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 | _ | 6 neighbour | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 neighbour | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 neighbour | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 neighbour | amod |
| 6 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mine | case |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 neighbour | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 silly | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 silly | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 silly | cop |
| 12 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 silly | advmod |
| 13 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 neighbour | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 17 replied | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 silly | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 neighbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a old neighbour of mine | half, silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | witch | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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