The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 25
“Fetch thy cat, boy,” said the merchant, “and send her.”
Who acts: merchant · What happens: fetch, say, send · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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 | _ | 2 Fetch | punct |
| 2 | Fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 cat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fetch | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boy | punct |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fetch | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fetch | 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 merchant | det |
| 11 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 send | cc |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 send | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | thy cat and boy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | infinitive | cat | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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