The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 27
‘Good morning, young man,’ said she; ‘you are early astir.
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: say, be · 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 (woman, 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 | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 astir | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 astir | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 astir | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 astir | cop |
| 15 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 astir | advmod |
| 16 | astir | astir | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | astir, early property | 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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