The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 28
‘Yes,’ said Turritella, pointing with her finger, ‘there she is, trying to keep out of sight because she is not smart.’
Who acts: Turritella · What happens: say, point, be, try, keep out, not be · To what, where: sight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Turritella), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pointing | punct |
| 8 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 finger | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 finger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pointing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trying | punct |
| 18 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trying | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obl |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 smart | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 smart | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 smart | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 smart | advmod |
| 28 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 keep | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Turritella | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | point | gerund | Turritella not said here | with Turritella's finger | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | present | Turritella | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | Turritella not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | keep out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Turritella not said here | sight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not is | present | Turritella | smart property | tree rules |
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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