The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 11
‘Now, mother, stand out of the way!’ said he.
Who acts: mother, Jack · What happens: stand out, say · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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 | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stand | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand out | infinitive | mother | the way | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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