The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 5
“Ah! my son,” replied the magician, “it is the best horse in my stable that you want!
Who acts: son, way, you · What happens: reply, be, want · To what, where: magician, best horse, stable · 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 (son, way, 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 son | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 magician | det |
| 10 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 horse | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 horse | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 horse | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 stable | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 stable | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 horse | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 want | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 stable | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | my son | the magician | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent magician=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | way | the best horse | my stable | tree rules | |||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | you | my stable | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
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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