The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 47
‘No,’ he replied, ‘the dishes are carefully cooked and sent up, but they are all so dreadfully tasteless.’
Who acts: father, dishes · What happens: reply, cook, send up, be · To what, where: dishes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, dishes), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cooked | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 cooked | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dishes | det |
| 10 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 cooked | aux:pass |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 13 cooked | advmod |
| 13 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cooked | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 sent | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tasteless | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 tasteless | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tasteless | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tasteless | cop |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 tasteless | advmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 tasteless | advmod |
| 23 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 24 tasteless | advmod |
| 24 | tasteless | tasteless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | father | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cook | present · passive | the dishes | carefully property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send up | participle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | dishes = dish | all, dreadfully, tasteless 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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