The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 174
‘I’ll pay them out yet,’ said she, nodding her head with an air of great determination.
Who acts: I, bade · What happens: pay out, say, nod · To what, where: Courage, head · 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, bade), 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 | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pay | compound:prt |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 pay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nodding | punct |
| 13 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nodding | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nodding | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 determination | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 determination | amod |
| 21 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 air | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay out | future | I | Courage | yet | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bade | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | nod | gerund | bade not said here | bade's head | with a air of great determination | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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