The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 64
‘Ah, my dear mother!’ said he, ‘give me some of my brothers’ old clothes, and food enough for a few days, and I will go out into the world and seek my fortune, for, so far as I can see, you have children enough.’
Who acts: dear mother, baby, brothers, I, you · What happens: say, give, clothes, go out, seek, see · To what, where: me, world, fortune, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dear mother, baby, brothers, I), 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 | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 mother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mother | amod |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 clothes | det |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 brothers | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clothes | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 18 brothers | case |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clothes | amod |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 give | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 food | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 food | cc |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 25 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 food | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 days | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 days | amod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 food | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 go | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | aux |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 35 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 seek | cc |
| 40 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 go | conj |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 42 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 seek | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 for | punct |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 seek | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 see | punct |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 far | advmod |
| 47 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 see | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 see | mark |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 see | nsubj |
| 50 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 see | aux |
| 51 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 go | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 have | punct |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 54 have | nsubj |
| 54 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 55 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 have | obj |
| 56 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 54 have | advmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 58 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my dear mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | baby | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clothes | my brothers | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go out | future | I | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | my fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | can | I | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | have | present | you | children | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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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