The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 187
‘Oh, it’s only a little drop of brandy, your honour,’ she said.
Who acts: gulp, woman, your · What happens: be, say, honour · To what, where: little drop · 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 (gulp, woman, 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 | _ | 9 drop | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 drop | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drop | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 drop | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 drop | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drop | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drop | amod |
| 9 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brandy | case |
| 11 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 honour | punct |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 honour | nmod:poss |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drop | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 drop | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | gulp | a little drop and your honour | of brandy | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | honour | your | nom honour «state 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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