The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 152
‘Oh,’ said the Priest, ‘if you are an angel from heaven do let me out and let me go back to earth again, for no place was ever so bad as this—the little fiends nip me so with their tongs.’
Who acts: Priest, you, angel, me, place, little fiends · What happens: say, be, let out, let, go back, nip · To what, where: angel, heaven, 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, you, angel, me), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Priest | det |
| 7 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angel | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 angel | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 angel | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 angel | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 angel | cop |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 angel | det |
| 14 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 heaven | case |
| 16 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 angel | nmod |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | aux |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 let | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 earth | case |
| 27 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 back | obl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bad | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 bad | mark |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 place | det |
| 32 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bad | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 bad | cop |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 bad | advmod |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 bad | advmod |
| 36 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 go | advcl |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 this | case |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 bad | obl |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 nip | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 fiends | det |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 fiends | amod |
| 42 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 nip | nsubj |
| 43 | nip | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 nip | obj |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 nip | advmod |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 tongs | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 tongs | nmod:poss |
| 48 | tongs | tong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 nip | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a angel | heaven | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let out | present · do-support | a angel | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | a angel not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go back | infinitive | me not said here | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | no place | ever | as this; bad property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | nip | present | the little fiends | me | with fiends's tongs | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location i=Theme |
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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