The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 8
The master said to him, ‘Hunter, what are you aiming at?’
Who acts: master, you · What happens: say, aim · To what, where: man, Hunter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hunter | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 8 Hunter | case |
| 8 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 aiming | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 aiming | obj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 aiming | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 aiming | nsubj |
| 13 | aiming | aim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Hunter | acl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 aiming | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 aiming | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | aim | present · progressive | you | Hunter | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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