The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 56
‘Ah, well! you may hang there for me; I can’t breathe life into you again.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: hang, not breathe · To what, where: life
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, I), 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 hang | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 hang | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 hang | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hang | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hang | aux |
| 8 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 hang | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hang | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 breathe | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 breathe | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 breathe | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 breathe | advmod |
| 16 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hang | conj |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breathe | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 breathe | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 breathe | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hang | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | may | you | there | for me | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not breathe | can | I | life | again | into you | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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