The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 84
“It is well for you that you have not asked for a horse-load,” said he who had come out of the rock.
Who acts: art, you, Prince · What happens: be, not ask, say, come out · 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 (art, you, Prince), 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 | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 you | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 you | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 you | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 “ | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 asked | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 asked | advmod |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 load | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 load | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 load | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 16 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rock | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rock | det |
| 27 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | art | for you; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | present · perfect | you | for a horse load | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | come out | past · perfect | Prince | of the rock; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 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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