The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 12
So then Dullhead said: ‘Father, let me go out and cut wood.’
Who acts: Dullhead, Father, me · What happens: say, let, go out, cut · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, Father, me), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 3 | Dullhead | Dullhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Father | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wood | cc |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wood | amod |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dullhead | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Father | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out | infinitive | me not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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