The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 33
‘Oh, the dirty creature is quite mad!’ thought the gentleman.
Who acts: dirty creature, mad · What happens: be, think · To what, where: gentleman
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dirty creature, mad), 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 | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 mad | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 creature | det |
| 5 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mad | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mad | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 mad | advmod |
| 9 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 mad | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gentleman | det |
| 14 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the dirty creature | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | mad | the gentleman | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gentleman=Theme |
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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