The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 54

‘Click, clock, clack, Our dirty slut’s come back.’

Who acts: you, dirty slut ’s · What happens: click, come back · To what, where: clock

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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, dirty slut ’s), 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	_	2 Click	punct
2	Click	click	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clock	punct
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Click	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 clack	punct
6	clack	clack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clock	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
8	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ’s	nmod:poss
9	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ’s	amod
10	slut	slut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ’s	compound
11	’s	'	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Click	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Click	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Click	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	click	imperative	you not said here	clock and clack					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clock=Theme
2	come back	present	Our dirty slut ’s						vn escape-51.1-1 «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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