The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 44
This time the dove knew better, and she answered boldly, ‘Indeed, I shall do nothing of the sort,’ though her heart beat wildly with fear when she saw the jackal preparing for a spring.
Who acts: dove, I, heart, jackal · What happens: know, answer, do, beat, see, prepare · To what, where: nothing, jackal
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 (dove, I, heart, jackal), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dove | det |
| 4 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 knew | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 11 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 14 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 do | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Indeed | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | conj |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sort | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sort | det |
| 22 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 beat | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 beat | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 beat | mark |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beat | nsubj |
| 28 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | parataxis |
| 29 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 28 beat | advmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 fear | case |
| 31 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beat | obl |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 saw | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | nsubj |
| 34 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 beat | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 jackal | det |
| 36 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 saw | obj |
| 37 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 jackal | acl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 spring | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 spring | det |
| 40 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 preparing | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the dove | time | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Dove | boldly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | shall | I | nothing | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | beat | present | Dove's heart | with fear; wildly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fear=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Dove | the jackal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jackal=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | prepare | gerund | the jackal not said here | spring | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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