The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 7

‘Nonsense!’ said the wife, ‘it is only a roasted bullock that I thought would be a tit-bit for your supper; sit down and I will bring it up at once.’

Who acts: Nonsense, I, wife · What happens: say, roast, be, think, sit down, bring up · To what, where: roasted bullock, tit bit, Nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nonsense, I, wife), 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 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	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 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bullock	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 bullock	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bullock	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 bullock	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	15 bullock	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bullock	det
14	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bullock	amod
15	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	appos
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 thought	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bullock	acl:relcl
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bit	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 bit	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
22	tit	tit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 tit	punct
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 supper	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 supper	nmod:poss
27	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sit	punct
29	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 sit	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bring	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 bring	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 bring	aux
34	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sit	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bring	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 bring	compound:prt
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 bring	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 sit	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	roast	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	Nonsense	a roasted bullock		tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	I	a roasted bullock		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
5	is a	would	the wife	a tit bit	for your supper	tree rules
6	sit down	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bring up	future	I	Nonsense		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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