The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 73
‘Yes, very interesting!’ said the first lady-in-waiting.
What happens: say · To what, where: first waiting · 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 | _ | 5 interesting | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 interesting | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 interesting | advmod |
| 5 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 interesting | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 interesting | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waiting | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 waiting | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waiting | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 waiting | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first waiting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent waiting=Topic |
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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