The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 128

‘Eh, what!’ said the old fellow; ‘ME stand on my head, what an idea!’

Who acts: Eh, ME, head · What happens: say, stand, idea · To what, where: old fellow, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eh, ME, head), 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 Eh	punct
2	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Eh	appos
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Eh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fellow	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fellow	amod
10	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct
13	ME	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 stand	nsubj
14	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stand	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 idea	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 idea	nsubj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 idea	det
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Eh	the old fellow		tree rules
2	stand	present	ME		my head and a idea	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
3	idea		my head and a idea			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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