The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 123
‘Oh, the middle finger of your left hand,’ the maiden answered, laughing.
Who acts: you, maiden · What happens: ', answer, laugh
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden), 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 | _ | 12 ’ | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 ’ | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 finger | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 finger | amod |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finger | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ’ | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughing | punct |
| 17 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ’ | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ' | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the maiden | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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