The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 76
‘Why, there is nothing very odd in taking a mouthful of water!’ replied the man, standing up.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, take, reply, stand up · To what, where: mouthful, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 is | nsubj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 odd | advmod |
| 8 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nothing | amod |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 taking | mark |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 odd | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouthful | det |
| 12 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouthful | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 replied | advcl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 standing | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | nothing not said here | a mouthful of water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand up | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «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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