The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 22
‘Seven dairies,’ said she, ‘and their increase for seven years.’
Who acts: Seven dairies · What happens: say · 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 (Seven dairies), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 dairies | nummod |
| 3 | dairies | dairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dairies | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dairies | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 12 increase | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 increase | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 increase | nmod:poss |
| 12 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 increase | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 increase | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 increase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Seven dairies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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