The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 37
‘Well,’ said the first bird, ‘the spring is not far from here.
Who acts: spring · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: first bird · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (spring), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 far | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 far | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spring | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 far | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 far | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 said | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 far | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | the spring | far property | tree rules |
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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