The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 29

‘I will just have a shot at that duck,’ said he, and began to aim at it.

Who acts: I, duck · What happens: have, say, begin, aim · To what, where: shot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (I, duck), 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	_	5 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shot	det
7	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 duck	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 duck	det
10	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shot	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 aim	mark
19	aim	aim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 aim	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	future	I	a shot		at that duck	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	duck				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past	duck not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	aim	to-infinitive	duck not said here		shot		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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