The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 40
‘Then,’ said the lady in the red cap, ‘you are one of those who slay giants.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, be, slay · To what, where: lady, red cap, one, giants · 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), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cap | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cap | amod |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 one | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | cop |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 slay | nsubj |
| 20 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slay | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lady | the red cap | then | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in cap=Manner | |||
| 2 | is a | present | you | one | of those | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slay | present | giants | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient |
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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