The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 60
‘Yes, granny, I am weaving,’ answered the cat.
Who acts: I, weaving · What happens: weave, answer · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, weaving), 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 | _ | 8 weaving | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 weaving | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 granny | punct |
| 4 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 weaving | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weaving | aux |
| 8 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | csubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 weaving | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 weaving | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cat | det |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | present · progressive | I | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | weaving | the cat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality |
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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