The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 233
‘Oh no, you must not do that,’ said his wife; ‘you yourself arranged that he was to come here.’
Who acts: you, Governor · What happens: not do, say, arrange, come · To what, where: that, wife · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 do | discourse |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 arranged | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 arranged | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 arranged | nsubj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 you | nmod |
| 19 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 arranged | advcl |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | must | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | Governor's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 3 | arrange | past | you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Governor | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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