The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 34
“Get away!” said the Prince, quite gruffly.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: get away, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 2 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Get | advmod |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Get | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gruffly | punct |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 gruffly | advmod |
| 11 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Prince | gruffly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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