The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 39
“I shall see about that,” said the giant, and went round to the stable, but it was just as the Prince had said.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, say, go round · To what, where: giant, stable · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 see | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 stable | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stable | det |
| 18 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | aux:pass |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 said | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 said | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | aux |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | shall | I | about that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go round | past | the stable | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | stable | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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