The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 151
‘Oh, heavens! who is that, and what ails you?’ said she.
Who acts: heavens · What happens: be, ail, say · To what, where: you · 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 (heavens), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 heavens | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavens | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 heavens | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 who | cop |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 who | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ails | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ails | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 ails | nsubj |
| 12 | ails | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavens | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ails | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 ails | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 ails | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | heavens not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ail | present | heavens | you | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | heavens | 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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