The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 49
‘You had best call me Snati-Snati,’ said the Dog.
Who acts: You, best · What happens: have, call, say · To what, where: me, Dog · 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, best), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 call | xcomp |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Snati | punct |
| 9 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Snati | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | 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 | 14 Dog | det |
| 14 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | best | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Dog | 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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