The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 44
‘Oh! here comes a hare,’ said the Musician; ‘I’ve not the smallest desire for his company.’
Who acts: hare, Musician, I · What happens: come, say, not have · To what, where: smallest desire · 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 (hare, Musician, I), 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 comes | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 comes | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 comes | advmod |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hare | det |
| 7 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comes | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Musician | det |
| 12 | Musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’ve | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’ve | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ’ve | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 comes | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 ’ve | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 desire | det |
| 19 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 desire | amod |
| 20 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ’ve | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 company | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 company | nmod:poss |
| 23 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 desire | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a hare | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Musician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not have | present | I | the smallest desire | for hare's company | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=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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