The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 248

‘Well, what a time it has taken to lock the house door, father!’ said his wife, ‘and what have you done with the sheet and the night-gown?’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, lock, say, do · To what, where: it, house door, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 said	nsubj:outer
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl:unmarked
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taken	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 what	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lock	mark
11	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 taken	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	compound
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lock	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 door	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
23	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 done	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 done	obj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 sheet	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sheet	det
31	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 done	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gown	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gown	det
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gown	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 night	punct
36	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sheet	conj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect · passive		it	time		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	lock	to-infinitive		the house door and father			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past		father's wife			tree rules
4	do	present · perfect	you			with the sheet and the night gown	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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