The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 87

‘Why, have you been in another great danger?’ says the knight.

Who acts: you · What happens: have, be, say · To what, where: great danger, knight · 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 (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	_	2 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 danger	nsubj
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 danger	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 danger	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 danger	amod
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 danger	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	advcl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knight	det
15	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	you		another great danger	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present		the knight		tree rules

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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