The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 111
‘How comes this?’ she said; ‘the porridge is salt!
Who acts: hag, porridge · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: this, salt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hag, porridge), 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 comes | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 comes | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 salt | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 salt | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 porridge | det |
| 12 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 salt | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 salt | cop |
| 14 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | hag not said here | this | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the porridge | salt | 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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