The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 113
He brought me this child,” says she, “I do not know where he got it, and ordered me to make it into a pie, and I cannot help crying at the command.”
Who acts: person, I · What happens: bring, say, not know, get, order, make · To what, where: child, me, woman, castle, pie, command · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 got | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ordered | cc |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | advcl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 ordered | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 pie | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 pie | det |
| 29 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 help | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 help | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 help | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 help | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 help | advmod |
| 35 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | conj |
| 36 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 help | xcomp |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 command | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 command | det |
| 39 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 crying | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | person | this child | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination child=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | person not said here | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | past | person | castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | order | past | I not said here | me | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | castle | a pie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into pie=Product | |||
| 7 | not help | can | I | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | cry speech: express not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | the command | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at command=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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