The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 78
The cat was no sooner beyond the gates than she said to the dog:
Who acts: cat, Princess · What happens: be, say · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sooner | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sooner | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 sooner | det |
| 5 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 said | advmod |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 gates | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sooner | obl |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 said | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dog | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cat | beyond the gates; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | the dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient |
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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