The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 54
‘He flew away in a cloak of fire,’ said another.
Who acts: story · What happens: fly away, say · To what, where: cloak, another · 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 (story), 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 | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cloak | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cloak | det |
| 7 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloak | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | story | a cloak of fire | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in cloak=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | another | 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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