The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 22
‘Those are our pursuers,’ cried she, and turning the ball three times in her hand she spoke to it thus:
Who acts: pursuers, edge · What happens: be, cry, turn, speak · To what, where: pursuers, edge, ball, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pursuers, edge), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 pursuers | det |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pursuers | cop |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pursuers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pursuers | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pursuers | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turning | cc |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ball | det |
| 14 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obj |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turning | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spoke | nsubj |
| 21 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hand | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spoke | obl |
| 24 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 21 spoke | advmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | our pursuers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | our pursuers | edge | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | our pursuers not said here | the ball | time | in edge's hand | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent ball=Patient in hand=Topic | ||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | edge | edge's hand not said here | ball | thus 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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