The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 37
‘It is I, O goddess!’ replied Petru, rather timidly.
Who acts: life, goddess · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: goddess
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (life, goddess), 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 goddess | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 goddess | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 goddess | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 goddess | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 goddess | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 goddess | discourse |
| 7 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 goddess | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 goddess | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 timidly | punct |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 timidly | advmod |
| 14 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 10 replied | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | life | goddess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | goddess | timidly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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