The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 31
‘Oh, but it might be done,’ said Dapplegrim.
Who acts: Dapplegrim · What happens: do, say · To what, where: light · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dapplegrim), 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 | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 done | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 done | cc |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | might · passive | light | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dapplegrim | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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