The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 35
Then he said again, exactly as the crane had taught him:
Who acts: soul · What happens: say, teach · To what, where: crane, soul · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 11 taught | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 taught | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crane | det |
| 9 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taught | aux |
| 11 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | soul | then; again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the crane | soul | exactly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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