The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 194
‘Good gracious! child,’ said the old woman, ‘what a figure you’ve got.
Who acts: Good gracious child, old woman, you, figure · What happens: say, figure, have, get · To what, where: figure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good gracious child, old woman, you, figure), 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 | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracious | punct |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 figure | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 figure | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 figure | nsubj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 figure | det |
| 16 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 woman | appos |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ’ve | nsubj |
| 18 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 figure | acl:relcl |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ’ve | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good gracious child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | figure | the old woman | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | you | a figure not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | participle | a figure not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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