The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 98
‘This is how it all happened, Mr. Secretary,’ cried the wife.
Who acts: This, it · What happens: be, happen, cry · To what, where: Secretary, wife
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 (This, it), 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 | _ | 7 happened | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 how | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 how | cop |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 happened | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 happened | advmod |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Secretary | punct |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Secretary | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Secretary | Secretary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | it | Secretary Mr. | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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