The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 113

‘Good,’ replied the old man; ‘dirt you have said, and dirt let it be.’

Who acts: dirt, business · What happens: reply, say, let, be · To what, where: old man, dirt, business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dirt, business), 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 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Good	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj:pass
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Good	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
17	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	nsubj
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Good	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		the old man	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		dirt	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	let	past	dirt	business	tree rules
4	be	infinitive	business not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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