The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 18

‘What kind of people are they then, who dwell here?’ said the youth.

Who acts: kind · What happens: be, say · To what, where: youth · 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 (kind), 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	_	11 dwell	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 kind	det
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwell	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kind	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dwell	cop
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dwell	nsubj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 dwell	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dwell	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 dwell	nsubj
11	dwell	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 dwell	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 dwell	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 dwell	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	what kind of people			here	then	dwell property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the youth					tree rules

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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