The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 49
‘Why, you’ve got a cold, Granny,’ said she, coming in.
Who acts: you, Granny · What happens: get, say, come in · To what, where: cold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Granny), 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 got | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 got | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cold | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Granny | punct |
| 10 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cold | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 coming | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 coming | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | a cold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | come in | gerund | Granny | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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