The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 16
‘I may just as well go straight home again,’ said he, ‘for it is no use to go to the King’s palace.’
Who acts: I, lad, hair · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lad, hair), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 7 go | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 home | advmod |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 use | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 use | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 use | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 use | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 use | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 use | det |
| 21 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 use | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 palace | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 use | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | may | I | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | hair | for no use | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | lad not said here | the King's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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