The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 84

‘Halloa! you Turkish nurse,’ said he, ‘what is that great castle there close to the town?

Who acts: Halloa · What happens: say, be · To what, where: great castle · Speech: someone speaks here

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	_	2 Halloa	punct
2	Halloa	Halloa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Halloa	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Halloa	appos
5	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nurse	amod
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Halloa	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Halloa	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Halloa	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 castle	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 castle	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 castle	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 castle	cop
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 castle	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 castle	amod
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 castle	advmod
19	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 castle	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 close	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Halloa						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		that great castle		there		close 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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