The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 8
The girl sighed and answered, ‘My stepmother deals in black arts, and she is not very friendly to strangers.’
Who acts: girl, My · What happens: sigh, answer, not be, deal · To what, where: black arts
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 (girl, My), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sighed | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deals | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 deals | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 deals | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deals | compound |
| 10 | deals | deal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answered | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 arts | case |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 arts | amod |
| 13 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deals | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friendly | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 friendly | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 friendly | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 friendly | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 friendly | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 friendly | advmod |
| 20 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sighed | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 strangers | case |
| 22 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 friendly | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the girl not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | girl | to strangers; friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deal | My | black arts | nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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