The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 127
‘Hans,’ said he, ‘what a fool you were not to come with me yesterday!
Who acts: Hans, you · What happens: say, not come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, 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 | _ | 2 Hans | punct |
| 2 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hans | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hans | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fool | det |
| 11 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 what | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 come | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fool | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | obl |
| 19 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not come | past | you | yesterday | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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