The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 24

‘Ah! mother,’ he replied, ‘you see I was quite right when I said I knew a messenger was the profession for me.’

Who acts: snail, you, I, messenger · What happens: reply, see, be, say, know · To what, where: profession · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail, you, I, messenger), 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	_	4 mother	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 mother	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 replied	nsubj
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	ccomp
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 right	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 right	advmod
16	right	right	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	advcl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 messenger	det
23	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 profession	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 profession	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 profession	det
26	profession	profession	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knew	ccomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 knew	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	snail			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	I		right property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know	past	I		for me	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	a messenger	the profession		tree rules

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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