The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 42

‘Master,’ said he, ‘have you got a glass that I could see myself in?’

Who acts: Master, you, I · What happens: say, have, get, see in · To what, where: glass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, you, I), 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 Master	punct
2	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Master	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Master	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 he	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 have	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 glass	det
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 see	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 glass	acl:relcl
18	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 see	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	17 see	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Master		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	master		tree rules
3	get	past	you	a glass	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Stimulus
4	see in	could	I	a glass	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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