The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 33
‘Well, good-morning, friend Drakestail,’ said comrade Wasp’s-nest, ‘where are we bound for so spruce and fresh?’
Who acts: comrade · What happens: say, bind · To what, where: we · 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: who acts (comrade), 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 | _ | 6 morning | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 morning | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 morning | conj |
| 9 | Drakestail | Drakestail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 morning | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 morning | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | Wasp’s | Wasp's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 comrade | appos |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 nest | punct |
| 16 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Wasp’s | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bound | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 bound | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 bound | advmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bound | aux:pass |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 bound | nsubj |
| 22 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 spruce | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 spruce | advmod |
| 25 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bound | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fresh | cc |
| 27 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spruce | conj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 bound | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | comrade | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bind | present · passive | we | for spruce | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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