The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 119

‘Well, my little foal, you are a fine fellow!’ said the youth.

Who acts: you, little foal · What happens: be, say · To what, where: fine fellow, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little foal), 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	_	15 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	15 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foal	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foal	amod
6	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fellow	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 fellow	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fellow	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fellow	det
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foal	appos
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 fellow	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 fellow	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	you	a fine fellow					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my little foal	the youth					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=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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