The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 83
“Stay, hothead!” he cried; “it is no jest, and I am prepared to make good my words.”
Who acts: man, hothead, my · What happens: stay, cry, be, prepare, make, word · To what, where: hothead, jest, man, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hothead, my), 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 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hothead | punct |
| 4 | hothead | hothead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stay | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 jest | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 jest | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 jest | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 jest | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 jest | det |
| 14 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prepared | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 prepared | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 prepared | aux:pass |
| 19 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cried | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 prepared | xcomp |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 make | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 words | nmod:poss |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | hothead | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | hothead | no jest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prepare in a quote | present · passive | man | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | my words | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset word=Product | ||||
| 6 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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