Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 45
"A merry fellow you are," said he, "and you shall be the Abbot of Canterbury in your master's place."
Who acts: merry fellow, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Abbot, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry fellow, you), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fellow | det |
| 3 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 are | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fellow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fellow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Abbot | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 Abbot | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 Abbot | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Abbot | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Abbot | det |
| 18 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Canterbury | case |
| 20 | Canterbury | Canterbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Abbot | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 master | nmod:poss |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 place | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 master | case |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Abbot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a merry fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | shall | you | the Abbot | your master's place | of Canterbury | 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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