The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 107
I work for quite common folks,’ says his master.
Who acts: I · What happens: work, say · To what, where: master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 work | nsubj |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 folks | case |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 common | advmod |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 folks | amod |
| 6 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 work | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | I | for common folks | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for folk=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I not said here | Prince's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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