The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 154
‘I only look after the Governor’s geese, that’s what I do, and they are the little fiends which have pinched your reverence.’
Who acts: I, that, fiends, your · What happens: look, be, do, pinch, reverence · To what, where: little fiends
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 (I, that, fiends, your), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 geese | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Governor | det |
| 7 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 geese | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Governor | case |
| 9 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 what | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 look | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fiends | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fiends | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fiends | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fiends | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fiends | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fiends | amod |
| 22 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 pinched | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 pinched | aux |
| 25 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fiends | acl |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 reverence | nmod:poss |
| 27 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pinched | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | I | after the Governor's geese | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | fiends = fiend | the little fiends | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pinch | present · perfect · passive | the little fiends | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | reverence | your | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: poss=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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