The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 44
So he called to her and said: ‘Sister, this time the cord is so strong I cannot break it.
Who acts: back, I · What happens: call, say, be, not break · To what, where: sister, cord · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sister | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sister | punct |
| 10 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 time | punct |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sister | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cord | det |
| 15 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 strong | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 strong | advmod |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 called | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 break | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 break | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 break | advmod |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 strong | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 break | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | back | sister | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | back not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | back not said here | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not break | can | I | cord | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
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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