The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 86

‘Can you, indeed?’ said the young man, seizing her by the hair.

Who acts: young man · What happens: say, seize · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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	_	2 Can	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Can	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Can	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Can	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Can	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Can	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seizing	punct
13	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seizing	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 hair	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hair	det
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seizing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the young man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	seize	gerund	the young man not said here	witch				by the hair	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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