The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 8
‘There is nothing we can possibly call him but Jack my Hedgehog,’ replied the wife.
Who acts: nothing, we · What happens: be, call, reply · To what, where: farmer, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, we), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 7 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 8 call | advmod |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 call | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 Jack | cc |
| 11 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 call | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 call | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | can | we | farmer | possibly property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme hedgehog=Result | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the wife | 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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