The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 45
She went on: ‘And yet killed twelve--what is that?’
Who acts: Princess · What happens: go on, kill, be · To what, where: that
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 killed | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 killed | advmod |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 that | nummod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 that | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 that | cop |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 killed | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Princess | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | Princess not said here | yet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | 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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