The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 48
‘That I will,’ said the Hare, ‘you will find me a most attentive pupil.’
Who acts: Hare, you · What happens: say, find · To what, where: 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 (Hare, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 will | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hare | det |
| 9 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pupil | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 attentive | advmod |
| 18 | attentive | attentive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pupil | amod |
| 19 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | future | you | me | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme pupil=Attribute |
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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