The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 161

‘Yes, you speak like a sensible man,’ said the field-mouse.

Who acts: you · What happens: speak, say · To what, where: field mouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). 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	_	5 speak	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 speak	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
5	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 speak	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	16 mouse	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mouse	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 field	punct
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	you					like a sensible man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the field mouse					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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