The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 48
But the doggie beneath the table began to bark, saying:
Who acts: doggie · What happens: begin, bark, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doggie), 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 | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doggie | det |
| 3 | doggie | doggie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 4 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doggie | nmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bark | mark |
| 9 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 bark | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the doggie beneath the table | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bark | to-infinitive | the doggie beneath the table not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the doggie beneath the table not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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