The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 94
‘A kettle full of gold and silver, do you call that nonsense?’
Who acts: kettle · What happens: call · To what, where: nonsense · 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 (kettle), 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 | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kettle | det |
| 3 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | nsubj |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kettle | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 silver | cc |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kettle | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 call | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 call | nsubj |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 nonsense | det |
| 14 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | a kettle | that nonsense | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nonsense=Recipient |
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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