The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 14
‘Well, well, go then!’ said the kitchen-maid, ‘but don’t let me find you staying there over the time when the pan has to be set on the fire for supper, and the roast put on the spit; and mind you bring back a good big armful of wood for the kitchen.’
Who acts: kitchen maid, me, you, pan, roast · What happens: go, say, not let, find, stay, have · To what, where: kitchen maid, me, you, fire, roast, spit · 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 (kitchen maid, me, you, pan), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 go | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maid | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 maid | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 kitchen | punct |
| 14 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 let | advmod |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 maid | acl:relcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 find | obj |
| 24 | staying | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 find | xcomp |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 staying | advmod |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 staying | obl |
| 29 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 has | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pan | det |
| 31 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 has | nsubj |
| 32 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 staying | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 set | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 set | aux:pass |
| 35 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 has | xcomp |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 fire | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fire | det |
| 38 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 supper | case |
| 40 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 mind | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 mind | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 roast | det |
| 44 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 mind | nsubj |
| 45 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 roast | acl |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 spit | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 spit | det |
| 48 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 put | obl |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 mind | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 mind | cc |
| 51 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 mind | obj |
| 53 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 mind | xcomp |
| 54 | back | back | ADV | _ | 53 bring | advmod |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 armful | det |
| 56 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 armful | amod |
| 57 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 armful | amod |
| 58 | armful | armful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 bring | obj |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 wood | case |
| 60 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 armful | nmod |
| 61 | for | for | ADP | _ | 63 kitchen | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 kitchen | det |
| 63 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 bring | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 mind | punct |
| 65 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the kitchen maid | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not let | infinitive · do-support | the kitchen maid not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | infinitive | me not said here | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stay | gerund | you not said here | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | have | present | the pan | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | set | to-infinitive · passive | the pan not said here | the fire | for supper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on fire=Destination | |||
| 8 | put | participle | the roast not said here | the spit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spit=Destination | ||||
| 9 | mind | infinitive | the roast | you | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | bring back | infinitive | the roast not said here | a good big armful of wood | for the kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent armful=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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