The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 90
‘That is the most charming coquetry I have ever seen!’ said all the ladies round.
Who acts: That, I, charming coquetry · What happens: charm, be, see, say · To what, where: charming coquetry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I, charming coquetry), 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 | _ | 7 coquetry | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 coquetry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coquetry | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coquetry | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 charming | advmod |
| 6 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 coquetry | amod |
| 7 | coquetry | coquetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 seen | advmod |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 coquetry | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 coquetry | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 ladies | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ladies | det |
| 17 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 round | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | That | the charming coquetry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | I | the charming coquetry not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coquetry=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the charming coquetry | round property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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