The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 6
Gerda called to them, but they naturally did not answer.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: call, not answer · To what, where: Gerda, soldiers · 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 (soldiers), 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 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answer | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 answer | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answer | nsubj |
| 8 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 11 answer | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 answer | advmod |
| 11 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | Gerda | soldiers = soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | soldiers = soldier | naturally property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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