The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 113
‘No, there it is, my dear!’ said the Queen, when she likewise saw a door with a cross.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 is | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dear | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 dear | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 19 saw | advmod |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 cross | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cross | det |
| 24 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | dear property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Queen | a door | with a cross; likewise property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=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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