The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 92
“Very well,” replied the ogre, “and this time I will take care to have him,” and he went back to his lake.
Who acts: ogre, time, Motikatika · What happens: reply, take, have, go back · To what, where: care, Motikatika · 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 (ogre, time, Motikatika), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ogre | det |
| 8 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 lake | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lake | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the ogre | well property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | future | this time | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | this time not said here | Motikatika | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | Motikatika | to Motikatika's lake result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lake=Result |
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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