The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 101
“Ah!” said he, “my merry lads, are you there?
Who acts: ogre, merry lads · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, merry lads), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | 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 | _ | 15 there | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 there | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lads | amod |
| 11 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 there | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lads | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 there | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 there | nsubj |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | ogre | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my merry lads | there property | tree rules |
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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