The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 10
‘Oh, what could you do down at the strand?’ said the kitchen-maid.
Who acts: you · What happens: do down, say · To what, where: strand, kitchen maid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (you), 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 do | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 strand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strand | det |
| 11 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maid | det |
| 16 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maid | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 kitchen | punct |
| 18 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do down | could | you | the strand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the kitchen maid | tree rules |
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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