The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 45

‘Oh, poor old creature!’ said Minnikin, ‘you shall have a taste of the wort too like the rest.’

Who acts: poor old creature, you · What happens: say, have, taste · To what, where: taste, wort · 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 (poor old creature, 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	_	6 creature	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 poor	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 taste	det
17	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wort	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wort	det
20	wort	wort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taste	nmod
21	too	too	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 rest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	poor old creature			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	shall	you	a taste of the wort	like the rest	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
3	taste			the wort		nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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