The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 65
‘Ah, Madam,’ said the fatter of the two, ‘I have such a pain in my side from running so fast.
Who acts: Madam, I · What happens: say, have, run · To what, where: pain, side · 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 (Madam, I), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Madam | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Madam | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fatter | det |
| 9 | fatter | fat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 two | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fatter | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 pain | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pain | det |
| 19 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 23 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 running | mark |
| 24 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 have | advcl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 fast | advmod |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 running | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | such pain | my side | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | I not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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