The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 16
‘But how prettily it is made!’ said all the ladies-in-waiting.
What happens: make, say · To what, where: rose, ladies · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 prettily | advmod |
| 4 | prettily | prettily | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 ladies | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ladies | det |
| 13 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 waiting | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 waiting | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ladies | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | rose | prettily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | all ladies and waiting | 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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