The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 5
‘Never!’ they replied, holding out their hands.
Who acts: children · What happens: not reply, hold out · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 replied | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 holding | punct |
| 8 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 replied | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 holding | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 holding | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past | children = child | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold out | gerund | children = child not said here | children's hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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