The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 35
‘This peasant girl must be crazy;’ but another answered:
Who acts: peasant girl, another · What happens: be, answer
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 (peasant girl, another), 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 | _ | 7 crazy | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crazy | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 crazy | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 crazy | cop |
| 7 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 crazy | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 crazy | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 answered | cc |
| 11 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crazy | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 crazy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | this peasant girl | crazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | another | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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