The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 37
‘I am the man for you, then,’ said he; ‘I will take on hand to do it.’
Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, say, take on, do · To what, where: man, hand · 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 (I, man), 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 | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 man | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 take | compound:prt |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 take | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the man | then | for you | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take on | future | I | hand | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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