The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 3
‘Ah, now we have got there,’ said Minnikin, ‘but how we are to get back again is a very different thing.’
Who acts: we, Minnikin · What happens: get, say, get back, be · To what, where: different thing · 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 (we, 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 | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 got | advmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thing | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 thing | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 are | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 are | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 are | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 thing | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 are | xcomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 again | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 thing | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 thing | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 different | advmod |
| 26 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thing | amod |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 thing | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | we | there | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Minnikin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get back | to-infinitive | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a different thing | 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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