The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 59
And the heron replied, ‘And which side do you turn to?’
Who acts: heron, side · What happens: reply, turn · Speech: someone speaks here
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, side), 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 | And | and | 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 | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turn | cc |
| 8 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 turn | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 turn | nsubj |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 turn | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the heron | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn | present · do-support | which side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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