The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 124
‘Horns,’ answered Alfin, shortly.
Who acts: Horns · What happens: answer · To what, where: Alfin
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horns), 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 | _ | 2 Horns | punct |
| 2 | Horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Horns | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Horns | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Alfin | Alfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shortly | punct |
| 8 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Horns | Alfin | shortly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent alfin=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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