The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 60
‘Ah, well! you may hang there for me, whether you are a hobgoblin or not,’ and on he went with his ox.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: hang, be, go · To what, where: hobgoblin
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, man), 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 | _ | 17 hobgoblin | punct |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 17 hobgoblin | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hobgoblin | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hobgoblin | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hobgoblin | det |
| 17 | hobgoblin | hobgoblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hang | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 not | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hobgoblin | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hang | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hang | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 23 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 went | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hang | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 ox | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ox | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | 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 | is a | present | you | a hobgoblin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | with man's ox | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ox=Beneficiary |
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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