The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 97
“Ha!” said he; “what long nails you’ve got!
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, get · To what, where: long nails · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 got | obj |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nails | amod |
| 11 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 got | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | aux |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect · passive | long nails | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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