The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 62
‘Hey! old man,’ said the witch, ‘get on your clothes as quick as you can; we are bidden to the feast.
Who acts: old man · What happens: say, get, bid · To what, where: witch, clothes, we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 5 man | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hey | punct |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witch | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 clothes | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 get | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 quick | advmod |
| 18 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 can | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 can | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 quick | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 bidden | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bidden | aux:pass |
| 25 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 feast | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 feast | det |
| 28 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bidden | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | old man | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | old man not said here | your clothes | quick property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on clothes=Source | |||
| 3 | bid | present · passive | we | to the feast | 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 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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