English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 31
“Why, the beautifullest lady you ever see, dressed right gay and ga'.
Who acts: you, beautifullest lady · What happens: see, dress · To what, where: beautifullest lady, right gay
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, beautifullest lady), 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 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | beautifullest | beautifull | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Why | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lady | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dressed | punct |
| 11 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 see | xcomp |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gay | amod |
| 13 | gay | gay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dressed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ga | cc |
| 15 | ga | ga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gay | conj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ga | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | the beautifullest lady not said here | ever | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dress in a quote | participle | the beautifullest lady not said here | right gay and ga | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gay=Patient |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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