The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 17
‘It is more than pretty,’ said the Emperor, ‘it is charming!’
Who acts: rose, Emperor · What happens: be, say, charm · 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: who acts (rose, Emperor), 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 | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 more | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 pretty | case |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 charming | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 charming | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 charming | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 charming | aux |
| 16 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 charming | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rose | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | charm | present · progressive | rose | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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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