The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 137

‘Who is calling me?’ said the Priest.

Who acts: Priest · What happens: call, say · To what, where: me · 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 (Priest), 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	_	4 calling	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 calling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calling	aux
4	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 calling	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 calling	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 calling	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Priest	det
10	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · progressive			me				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Priest						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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