The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 57
“Well, you’re a fine fellow, after all,” said the giant; “come and spend the night with us in our cave.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, say, come, spend · To what, where: fine fellow, giant, cave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 ’re | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ’re | nsubj |
| 5 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fellow | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’re | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ’re | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spend | cc |
| 21 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 spend | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cave | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 cave | nmod:poss |
| 28 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | you | a fine fellow | after all | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fellow=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | spend in a quote | infinitive | our cave | night | with us | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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