The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 73
‘Ah, brigand!’ she cries, ‘wait a bit!’
Who acts: brigand · What happens: cry, wait · To what, where: bit · 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 (brigand), 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 brigand | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 brigand | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | brigand | brigand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cries | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 brigand | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 brigand | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cries | nsubj |
| 8 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cries | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | brigand | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «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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