The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 80
‘I will undertake to groom it,’ said the youth.
Who acts: I · What happens: undertake, groom, say · To what, where: horse, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 undertake | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 undertake | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 undertake | aux |
| 4 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 groom | mark |
| 6 | groom | groom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 undertake | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 groom | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 undertake | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 undertake | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | future | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | groom | to-infinitive | I not said here | horse | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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