The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 14

‘Hutetu! it is terrible weather outside to-night,’ said the young fellow.

Who acts: youth, Hutetu · What happens: be, say · To what, where: terrible weather, young fellow · 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 (youth, Hutetu), 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 Hutetu	punct
2	Hutetu	Hutetu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hutetu	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 weather	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 weather	cop
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weather	amod
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hutetu	appos
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 weather	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 to	punct
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outside	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hutetu	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hutetu	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fellow	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellow	amod
17	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	youth	terrible weather				outside property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Hutetu	the young fellow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fellow=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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