The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 234
‘Yes, mother, I will shoot him,’ said he, and lay there aiming, and then aiming again, for no sooner was the head up and he caught sight of it than it was gone again.
Who acts: I, Governor, sight · What happens: shoot, say, lay up, aim, be, catch · To what, where: Governor, sight · 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, sight), 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 shoot | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 shoot | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 shoot | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shoot | aux |
| 8 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shoot | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shoot | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 shoot | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shoot | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shoot | conj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | aiming | aim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 lay | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 aiming | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 aiming | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 aiming | advmod |
| 22 | aiming | aim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 aiming | conj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 aiming | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 head | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 sooner | det |
| 27 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 head | advmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 head | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 head | det |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | vocative |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 lay | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 caught | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 caught | nsubj |
| 34 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lay | conj |
| 35 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 caught | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sight | nmod |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 41 gone | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 gone | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 gone | cop |
| 41 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 caught | advcl |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 gone | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | future | I | Governor | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Governor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay up | infinitive | I not said here | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | aim | gerund | I not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | aim | gerund | I not said here | then; again | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | is | past | for the head; soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | catch | past | Governor | sight of sight | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | past | sight | again | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | sight | sight | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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