The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 22
‘I was to take this water to you,’ said Kari.
Who acts: I, Kari · What happens: be, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kari), 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | you | take property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kari | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: 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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