The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 171
‘That is quite a meal!’ said the Princess; ‘but where shall we get the soup from?’
Who acts: That, meal, we · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: meal, Princess, soup · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, meal, we), 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 | _ | 6 meal | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 meal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 meal | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 meal | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 meal | det |
| 6 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 meal | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 meal | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 get | advmod |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 soup | det |
| 20 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 get | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | quite meal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | quite meal | the Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | shall | we | the soup | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soup=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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