The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 27
‘Ah, my lord,’ she replied, with rather an awkward air, ‘as to the Frog, she stands before you.
Who acts: Madam · What happens: reply, stand
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam), 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 | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 lord | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 air | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 air | advmod |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 14 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 air | amod |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stands | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 stands | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 Frog | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Frog | det |
| 21 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 stands | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Frog | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stands | nsubj |
| 24 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 stands | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Madam | with a awkward air | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with air=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | Madam | before you | as the Frog | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before you=Location |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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