The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 62

‘Good greeting, master!’ said the youth.

Who acts: Good greeting · What happens: say · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good greeting), 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 greeting	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 greeting	amod
3	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 greeting	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 greeting	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 greeting	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Good greeting and master	the youth					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic

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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