The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 116
‘Take off your caps,’ said one of the courtiers.
Who acts: one · What happens: take off, say · To what, where: caps · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Take | compound:prt |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 caps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 courtiers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtiers | det |
| 12 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | infinitive | your caps | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of the courtiers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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