The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 20
‘No, there is plenty of room,’ said the dragon, tucking himself carefully inside.
Who acts: plenty · What happens: be, say, tuck · To what, where: dragon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plenty | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dragon | det |
| 13 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tucking | punct |
| 15 | tucking | tuck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 tucking | obj |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 18 inside | advmod |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 tucking | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | plenty of room | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tuck | gerund | dragon | inside property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=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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