The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 234
‘That will be splendid!’ said she, clapping her little hands.
Who acts: That, flower · What happens: be, say, clap · To what, where: little hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, flower), 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 splendid | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 splendid | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 splendid | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 splendid | cop |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 splendid | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 splendid | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clapping | punct |
| 11 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hands | amod |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clapping | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | That | splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | flower | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clap | gerund | flower not said here | flower's little hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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