The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 69
‘Ah, you have a gun,’ said the farmer as the young man placed it in a corner.
Who acts: you, farmer, young man · What happens: have, say, place · To what, where: gun, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, farmer, young man), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gun | det |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 placed | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | nsubj |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 corner | det |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 placed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | a gun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | place | past | the young man | gun | a corner | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in corner=Destination |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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