The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 51
‘Noble lord,’ answered Ciccu, ‘I am making a coffin for the body of Ciccu, who is dead.’
Who acts: Noble lord, I, body · What happens: answer, make, be · To what, where: Ciccu, coffin
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noble lord, I, body), 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 | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 2 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lord | amod |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 making | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 making | aux |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 answered | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 coffin | det |
| 14 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ciccu | case |
| 19 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 body | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dead | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dead | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dead | cop |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 body | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Noble lord | Ciccu | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ciccu=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | present · progressive | I | a coffin | for the body of Ciccu | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent coffin=Material for body=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is | present | the body of Ciccu | dead 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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