The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 237
‘Just do what you think best, father,’ said his wife.
Who acts: you · What happens: think, say · To what, where: 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), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | aux |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 said | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 think | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Governor's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
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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