The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 94
His master’s compliments, said Hans, and he wanted three years’ tribute.
Who acts: compliments, Hans, master · What happens: say, want, compliment · To what, where: Hans, tribute · 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 (compliments, Hans, master), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compliments | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 master | case |
| 4 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 compliments | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tribute | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 years | case |
| 15 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hans's master's compliments | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Hans | three years's tribute | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tribute=Theme | ||||
| 3 | compliment | Hans's master | nom compliment «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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