The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 67
“I have hold of it now,” cried the attorney.
Who acts: attorney · What happens: have, cry, hold · To what, where: hold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attorney), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hold | nmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 have | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 attorney | det |
| 12 | attorney | attorney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the attorney = attorney | hold of hold | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the attorney | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | hold | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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