The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 2
‘Good-morning, neighbour,’ says the friend, ‘where are you off to so early?’
What happens: say · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 neighbour | punct |
| 6 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 where | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 where | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 says | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 off | cop |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 off | nsubj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 where | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 early | mark |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 early | advmod |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 where | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=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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