The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 29
'Be off with you!' said he, 'you'll get us into trouble.'
Who acts: husband, you · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: us, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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 | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 you | cop |
| 3 | off | off | ADV | _ | 5 you | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | iobj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 trouble | case |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | with you; off property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | future | you | us | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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