The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 37
‘Now, my friend,’ he said, ‘give me your right paw.’
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, give · To what, where: right paw, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 friend | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 friend | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 paw | nmod:poss |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 paw | amod |
| 16 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | your right paw | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient paw=Theme |
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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