The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 78
‘Those are what I call pearls,’ cried Grumedan in high glee.
Who acts: Those, I · What happens: be, call, cry · To what, where: pearls, high glee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Grumedan | Grumedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | flat |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 glee | case |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 glee | amod |
| 14 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Those | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | present | I | pearls | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pearl=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | high glee | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glee=Location |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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