The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 13
‘If you please, ma’am,’ said he, ‘is this your house?’
Who acts: you, Jack · What happens: ma'am, say, be · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jack), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 ma’am | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ma’am | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 ma’am | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma’am | punct |
| 6 | ma’am | ma'am | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma’am | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 ma’am | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 house | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 house | cop |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 house | det |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 house | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ma'am a condition, not said to happen | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Jack | your house | 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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