The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 76
‘May we have the honour of travelling with you—this respectable Cricket and myself?’ said the Grasshopper, stepping forward.
Who acts: we, honour, Grasshopper · What happens: have, travel, say, step forward · To what, where: honour · 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 (we, honour, 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 honour | det |
| 6 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 travelling | mark |
| 8 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 honour | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 travelling | obl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cricket | punct |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Cricket | det |
| 13 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Cricket | amod |
| 14 | Cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 myself | cc |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 Cricket | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Grasshopper | det |
| 21 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stepping | punct |
| 23 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | advcl |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 stepping | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | may | we | the honour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Patient | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | the honour not said here | with you | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Grasshopper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | step forward | gerund | the Grasshopper not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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