The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 1
‘Ho, ho!’ said Turritella, those are pretty bits of glass.
Who acts: Ho · What happens: say, be · To what, where: pretty bits · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho), 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 | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 2 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 4 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ho | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bits | punct |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 bits | det |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bits | cop |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bits | amod |
| 13 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Turritella | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 glass | case |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bits | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ho and ho | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that pretty bits | of glass | 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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