The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 11
You can speak, can you, you ridiculous crab?’ she said, for she was not quite pleased at the Crab’s remarks.
Who acts: You, voice, Crab · What happens: speak, crab, say, not be, remark · To what, where: remarks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, voice, Crab), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | aux |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 can | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crab | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 crab | nsubj |
| 9 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crab | amod |
| 10 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 crab | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 crab | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleased | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 pleased | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleased | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 pleased | advmod |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 pleased | advmod |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 remarks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Crab | det |
| 24 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 remarks | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Crab | case |
| 26 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pleased | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | can | You | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | crab | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | voice | the Crab's remarks | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | remark | the Crab | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=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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