The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 140
‘Ah, well,’ said the Fairy, ‘to-morrow I may have some pleasant news for you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: say, have · To what, where: Fairy, pleasant news · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 morrow | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 news | det |
| 19 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 news | amod |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | may | I | some pleasant news | to morrow; for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=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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