The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 18
‘I can do that,’ said Minnikin.
Who acts: I, Minnikin · What happens: do, say · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Minnikin), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Minnikin | 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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