The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 39

‘Oh, what can you do there?’ said the cook.

Who acts: you, cook · What happens: do, say · 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, cook), 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	can	can	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	11 said	parataxis
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 do	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cook	det
13	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	you			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the cook						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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