The Red Fairy Book, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs., sentence 7
‘Go,’ said the Giant; ‘I shall be glad to have a nap by-and-by.’
Who acts: Go, I · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: Giant, nap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hen That Lays Golden Eggs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Go, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giant | det |
| 7 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glad | cop |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glad | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 nap | det |
| 17 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 have | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 by | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 by | cc |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 by | punct |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 by | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Go | the Giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | a nap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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