The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 107
‘Console yourself, my man,’ said the Governor, laughing.
Who acts: Governor · What happens: say, laugh · 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 (Governor), 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 | _ | 3 yourself | punct |
| 2 | Console | Console | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yourself | nsubj |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 man | nmod:poss |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yourself | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yourself | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yourself | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Governor | det |
| 11 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughing | punct |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Governor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the Governor not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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