The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 117
‘Good day, my pretty one! you have a fine flock of turkeys there.’
Who acts: you · What happens: have · To what, where: fine flock
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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 | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flock | amod |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 turkeys | case |
| 15 | turkeys | turkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flock | nmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 turkeys | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | a fine flock of turkeys | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=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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