The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 18
‘Schurka, the dog,’ replied Martin, pointing to his new possession.
Who acts: Schurka, Martin · What happens: reply, point, possess · To what, where: Martin, new possession
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schurka, Martin), 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 | _ | 2 Schurka | punct |
| 2 | Schurka | Schurka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dog | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Schurka | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Schurka | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointing | punct |
| 11 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 possession | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 possession | nmod:poss |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 possession | amod |
| 15 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pointing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Schurka | Martin | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent martin=Topic | ||||
| 2 | point | gerund | Schurka not said here | Martin's new possession | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to possession=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | possess | Martin | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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 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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