The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 25
‘I mean to drown him,’ was the answer.
Who acts: I · What happens: mean, drown, be · To what, where: Martin, answer
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | discourse |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 drown | mark |
| 5 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mean | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drown | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drown not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | Martin | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the answer | tree rules |
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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