The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 55

‘What! can you speak?’ said he.

Who acts: you, Grasshopper · What happens: speak, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (you, Grasshopper), 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 speak	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 speak	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	can	you						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Grasshopper						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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