The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 84
The man shrugged his shoulders and said: ‘What treasure?
Who acts: man · What happens: shrug, say · To what, where: shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shrugged | nsubj |
| 3 | shrugged | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shrugged | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrugged | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 treasure | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 treasure | punct |
| 10 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 treasure | det |
| 11 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shrugged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrug | past | the man | governor's shoulders | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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