The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 72

‘Oh, what a fool you are!’ said she, ‘can’t you direct him straight forward, south through the wood?

Who acts: you, road · What happens: be, say, not direct · To what, where: fool, squire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, road), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1422): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 fool	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 fool	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fool	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fool	cop
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fool	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 direct	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 direct	punct
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 direct	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 direct	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 direct	nsubj
18	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 direct	obj
20	straight	straight	ADV	_	21 forward	advmod
21	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 direct	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 south	punct
23	south	south	ADV	_	18 direct	advmod
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 wood	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 south	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 direct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	you	what fool		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	road			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not direct	can	you	squire	forward, south property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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