The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 61
‘Then that is the side I turn to,’ said the heron.
Who acts: that, I · What happens: be, turn, say · To what, where: side, heron · 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 (that, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 side | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 side | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 side | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 turn | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heron | det |
| 14 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the side | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | present | I | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the heron | 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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