The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 71
‘You’ve got no right to lecture me!’ said she.
Who acts: You, wife · What happens: get, lecture, say · To what, where: right, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wife), 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 | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 right | det |
| 6 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lecture | mark |
| 8 | lecture | lecture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 right | acl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 lecture | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | You | no right | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer right=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lecture speech: other | to-infinitive | You not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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