The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 74
‘As we had to make such haste, and had no time to do it at home, we may as well do it here,’ said he.
Who acts: we, younger · What happens: have, make, do, say · To what, where: such haste, haste, home · 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 (we, younger), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 haste | amod |
| 8 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 do | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 do | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | we | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | we not said here | such haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | have | past | we not said here | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | haste | home | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | do | may | we | haste | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | younger = young | 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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