The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 251
‘Good heavens!’ said the Governor, ‘has he actually got the better of me again?’
Who acts: Good heavens, Governor · What happens: say, have, get · 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 (Good heavens, 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heavens | amod |
| 3 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavens | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavens | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Governor | det |
| 8 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 better | det |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 got | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 better | obl |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good heavens | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | Governor | again | actually, good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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