The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 7
‘You stupid old Giant,’ said his wife, ‘you only smell a nice sheep, which I have grilled for your dinner.’
Who acts: You · What happens: say, smell, grill · To what, where: wife, nice sheep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Giant | amod |
| 5 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stupid | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Giant | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Giant | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smell | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 smell | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 smell | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 smell | advmod |
| 15 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sheep | det |
| 17 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sheep | amod |
| 18 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 smell | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grilled | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 grilled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 grilled | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grilled | aux |
| 23 | grilled | grill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sheep | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 dinner | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grilled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | You | face's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 2 | smell | present | you | a nice sheep | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grill | present · perfect · passive | a nice sheep | for your dinner | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for dinner=Beneficiary |
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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