The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 68
“Upon my word,” said he, “whoever dug and planted it must be good workmen.
Who acts: king, whoever, word, my · What happens: say, dig, plant, be, word · To what, where: good workmen · 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 (king, whoever, word, my), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 word | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 word | nmod:poss |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dug | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dug | punct |
| 11 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dug | nsubj |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 planted | cc |
| 14 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dug | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 workmen | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 workmen | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 workmen | cop |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 workmen | amod |
| 19 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 planted | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | upon my word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dig in a quote | past | whoever | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | plant in a quote | past | whoever not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | must | word | good workmen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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