The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 136
“I’ve just shot a stag,” said Rasmus, highly pleased with himself.
Who acts: Rasmus · What happens: shot, say · To what, where: stag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasmus), 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 shot | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shot | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 shot | advmod |
| 5 | shot | shot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stag | det |
| 7 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shot | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shot | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shot | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Rasmus | Rasmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 13 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 pleased | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shot in a quote | present | Rasmus | a stag | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rasmus | 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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