The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 3
“Well, now you have been near a hundred deaths; will you say: ‘To your good health’?”
Who acts: you · What happens: have, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 say | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 say | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 now | ccomp |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 have | xcomp |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 deaths | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hundred | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 deaths | nummod |
| 11 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 been | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 health | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 health | punct |
| 18 | To | to | ADP | _ | 21 health | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 health | nmod:poss |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 health | amod |
| 21 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | ccomp |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 health | punct |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | future | you | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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