The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 108
‘Oh, certainly,’ he replied, and began: ‘Now, listen attentively.
Who acts: Halloa · What happens: reply, begin, listen
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halloa), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 certainly | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 listen | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 listen | punct |
| 14 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 listen | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Now | punct |
| 16 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | parataxis |
| 17 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 16 listen | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Halloa | certainly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Halloa not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | now | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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