The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 104
‘Now, my man, and what’s amiss with you?’ said the Governor.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 man | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 man | nmod:poss |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 amiss | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 amiss | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 amiss | nsubj |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 amiss | cop |
| 10 | amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 amiss | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Governor | det |
| 17 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my man | with you; amiss property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my man | 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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