The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 53
Then Ciccu scratched his ear thoughtfully, and cried, ‘Idiot that I am!
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: scratch, cry · To what, where: ear, Idiot
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 (Ciccu), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 scratched | advmod |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | nsubj |
| 3 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scratched | obj |
| 6 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 3 scratched | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratched | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Idiot | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Idiot | punct |
| 12 | Idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 am | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 am | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Idiot | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | past | Ciccu | Ciccu's ear | then | thoughtfully property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Ciccu not said here | Idiot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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