The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 53
His name was Kay, and hers was Gerda.
Who acts: name, two, hobgoblin · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Kay, Gerda
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, two, hobgoblin), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Kay | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kay | cop |
| 4 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Gerda | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Gerda | cc |
| 7 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Gerda | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Gerda | cop |
| 9 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kay | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hobgoblin's name | Kay and Gerda | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | two | Gerda | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | hobgoblin | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/8/53/