The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 131
‘Take it, then, you utter disgrace!’ said the old hag, ‘since you are just like these two brats.’
Who acts: you · What happens: take, disgrace, say, be · To what, where: favour, old hag · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Take | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disgrace | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 disgrace | nsubj |
| 8 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disgrace | amod |
| 9 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hag | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hag | amod |
| 15 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brats | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 brats | punct |
| 18 | since | since | ADP | _ | 25 brats | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 brats | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 brats | cop |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 brats | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 brats | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 brats | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 brats | nummod |
| 25 | brats | brat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hag | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | favour | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disgrace | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old hag and this two brats | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | you | since this two brats | 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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