The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 60
But he controlled himself and said: “Let me be, wife; what ails you?
Who acts: husband · What happens: control, say, let, be, ail · To what, where: husband, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 controlled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 controlled | nsubj |
| 3 | controlled | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 controlled | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 controlled | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Let | obj |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wife | punct |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Let | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ails | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 ails | nsubj |
| 16 | ails | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 controlled | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ails | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 controlled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | past | husband | husband | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | husband | wife obl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | infinitive | husband not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ail in a quote | present | you | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=Experiencer |
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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