The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 4

‘That goose is ill,’ said he; ‘I must make haste to kill and dress her.’

Who acts: goose, third, I · What happens: be, say, make, kill, dress · To what, where: haste, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goose, third, 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	_	5 ill	punct
2	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 goose	det
3	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ill	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ill	cop
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ill	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 make	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 kill	mark
17	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 haste	acl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dress	cc
19	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 kill	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dress	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that goose		ill property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	third			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	must	I	haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
4	kill	to-infinitive	I not said here	haste not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	dress	infinitive	I not said here	woman		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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