The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 120
“When I get across I will tell you,” said he.
Who acts: miller · What happens: get, tell, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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 | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 get | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present | miller | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | miller | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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