The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 71
Then the greybeard opened his mouth, and said: ‘The kettle is boiling; we are expected at home.’
Who acts: greybeard, kettle · What happens: open, say, boil, expect · To what, where: mouth, we, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greybeard, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 greybeard | det |
| 3 | greybeard | greybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 boiling | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 boiling | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kettle | det |
| 13 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boiling | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 boiling | aux |
| 15 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 expected | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 expected | aux:pass |
| 19 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 expected | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the greybeard | greybeard's mouth | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the greybeard not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | boil | present · progressive | the kettle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | expect | present · passive | we | home | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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