The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 56
But the cook answered, ‘There is heat enough there; see for yourself.’
Who acts: cook, heat · What happens: answer, be, see · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, heat), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 there | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 is | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 yourself | case |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 see | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the cook | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | present | heat | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | for yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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