The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 38
But the heron replied, ‘You should not have believed him.
Who acts: heron · What happens: reply, not believe · To what, where: You
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heron), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heron | det |
| 3 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 believed | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 believed | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 believed | aux |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 replied | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 believed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the heron | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not believe | should · perfect · passive | You | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme he=Eventuality |
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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