The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 216
‘Oh, just ride off,’ said the Governor, ‘and I will look after the cask and the horse too.’
Who acts: Governor, I · What happens: ride off, say, look · 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 (Governor, I), 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 ride | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 ride | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 ride | advmod |
| 5 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 ride | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ride | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ride | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Governor | det |
| 11 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 11 Governor | discourse |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 look | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | aux |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 cask | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cask | det |
| 20 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 horse | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cask | conj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | infinitive | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Governor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | future | I | after the cask and the horse | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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