The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 91
‘At last,’ said the poor chap, going up the great stairs, ‘they have decided to receive me.’
Who acts: footmen · What happens: say, go up, decide, receive · To what, where: poor chap, last, great stairs, me · 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 (footmen), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 last | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chap | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chap | amod |
| 9 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 stairs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stairs | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stairs | amod |
| 15 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 decided | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 decided | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 decided | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 decided | aux |
| 20 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 receive | mark |
| 22 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 decided | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 receive | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the poor chap | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chap=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go up | gerund | the great stairs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent | |||||
| 3 | decide | present · perfect | footmen = footman | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | receive not said to happen | to-infinitive | footmen = footman not said here | me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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