The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 76
Then a huge griffin appeared, saying: ‘I heard someone giving an invitation to eat; is there anything for me?’
Who acts: huge griffin, I · What happens: appear, say, hear, give, eat, be · To what, where: someone, invitation, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge griffin, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 griffin | det |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 griffin | amod |
| 4 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 anything | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 appeared | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 someone | acl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 invitation | det |
| 15 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 invitation | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 anything | cop |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 anything | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 anything | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 anything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a huge griffin | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a huge griffin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | I | someone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | a invitation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | a invitation not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | anything | for me | 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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