The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 63
‘Yes, I see a dark cloud, far away,’ said he.
Who acts: I, prince · What happens: see, say · To what, where: dark cloud · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cloud | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cloud | amod |
| 8 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 away | punct |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | a dark cloud | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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