The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 153
‘There is a guinea for you,’ said he; ‘go and bring her here.’
Who acts: guinea · What happens: be, say, go, bring · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guinea), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 guinea | det |
| 5 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 guinea | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 bring | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a guinea for you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | guinea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | Princess | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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