The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 24

‘Superbe! charmant!’ said the ladies-in-waiting, for they all chattered French, each one worse than the other.

Who acts: Superbe, ladies · What happens: say, chatter · To what, where: ladies, French · 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 (Superbe, ladies), 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	_	2 Superbe	punct
2	Superbe	Superbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Superbe	punct
4	charmant	charmant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Superbe	amod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Superbe	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Superbe	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ladies	det
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 waiting	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ladies	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 chattered	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 chattered	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 chattered	nsubj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 chattered	advmod
18	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
19	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 chattered	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 French	appos
23	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 one	amod
24	than	than	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 worse	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Superbe	the ladies and waiting					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic
2	chatter	past	ladies = lady	French					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent french=Theme

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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