The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 50
It had been looking at her for some time, and it nodded its head and said, ‘Caw! caw! good day.’
Who acts: crow · What happens: look, nod, say · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nodded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nodded | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 nodded | nsubj |
| 13 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | parataxis |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nodded | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nodded | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 caw | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Caw | punct |
| 20 | Caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caw | compound |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Caw | punct |
| 22 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 day | compound |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 caw | punct |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | crow | time | at Gerda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | |||
| 2 | nod | past | crow | crow's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | crow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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