The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 73

‘Look here, my boy,’ replied old Birscha.

What happens: look, reply · To what, where: old Birscha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	ccomp
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boy	nmod:poss
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Birscha	amod
11	Birscha	Birscha	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive				here		my boy vocative	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	reply speech: assert	past		old Birscha					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 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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