The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 31
‘No,’ replied the leader of the goblins, ‘we found neither brook nor fish in the desert.’
Who acts: we · What happens: reply, find · To what, where: leader, brook, desert
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 (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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leader | det |
| 7 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 goblins | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goblins | det |
| 10 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leader | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 15 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 brook | det |
| 16 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 fish | cc |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brook | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 desert | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 desert | det |
| 21 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the leader of the goblins | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent leader=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | past | we | neither brook nor fish | the desert | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brook=Topic |
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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