The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 4
‘“Now you are talking too fast,” spluttered the fire.
Who acts: you, talking · What happens: talk, splutter · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, talking), 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 | _ | 11 spluttered | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 talking | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 talking | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 talking | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 talking | aux |
| 6 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spluttered | csubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 talking | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 talking | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 talking | punct |
| 11 | spluttered | splutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spluttered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | present · progressive | you | now | fast property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | splutter | past | talking | the fire | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic |
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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