The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 26
“Find me my horse in three days,” said he, “or it will be the worse for you.”
Who acts: you, horse · What happens: find, say, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horse), 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 Find | punct |
| 2 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Find | obj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Find | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 days | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 days | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Find | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worse | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worse | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 worse | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 worse | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worse | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 worse | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 worse | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 worse | det |
| 20 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 worse | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | imperative | you not said here | me | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme horse=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | horse | for you; bad property | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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