The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 220
‘Now I shall have ten dollars more!’ cried the old woman inside the cask; so he soon saw what kind of mead it was, and set out homewards.
Who acts: I, Governor · What happens: have, cry, see, set out · To what, where: ten dollars, old woman, cask, kind, homewards · 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 (I, Governor), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 dollars | nummod |
| 7 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 dollars | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 17 cask | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cask | det |
| 17 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 saw | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 saw | advmod |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 23 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 24 kind | det |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mead | case |
| 26 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kind | nmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 was | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 mead | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 set | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 set | cc |
| 31 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 set | compound:prt |
| 33 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 set | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | I | ten dollars | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the old woman | the cask | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Governor | what kind of mead | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | homewards | 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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