The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 62
‘Well, well,’ said the man, ‘then you shall have the loan of a pair of snow shoes of mine.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, have, loan · To what, where: man, loan, pair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | 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 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 have | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 loan | det |
| 17 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pair | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pair | det |
| 20 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loan | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 shoes | case |
| 22 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shoes | compound |
| 23 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pair | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mine | case |
| 25 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoes | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | shall | you | the loan of a pair of snow shoes of mine | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient | |||
| 3 | loan | a pair of snow shoes of mine | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=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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