The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 26
She replied, ‘Yes, father, it is quite true.
Who acts: beast, child · What happens: reply, be
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, child), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 5 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 father | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yes | punct |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 true | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | cop |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 true | advmod |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | beast | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | child | true property | 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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