The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 59
“He must have gone down here,” said Paul, “and I will go after him.
Who acts: Paul · What happens: go down, say, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul), 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 gone | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 gone | advmod |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gone | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down in a quote | must · perfect | Paul | here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Paul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | Paul | after Paul | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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