The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 76

‘My dear wife,’ said the man at last, ‘you really must eat something.

Who acts: dear wife, you · What happens: say, eat · To what, where: man, last, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear wife, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	17 eat	advmod
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 eat	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My dear wife	the man		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	eat	must	you	something					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient

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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