The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 83

‘Good gracious!’ exclaimed the master; ‘how is it that he lets you touch him, when no one else can go near him?’

Who acts: man, one · What happens: exclaim, be, let, touch, go · To what, where: master, horse, you, man

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 (man, 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	_	3 gracious	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gracious	amod
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gracious	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 master	det
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 is	advmod
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 touch	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 is	expl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 lets	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lets	nsubj
16	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 touch	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 lets	obj
18	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 gracious	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 touch	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 go	advmod
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	nsubj
24	else	else	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 touch	conj
27	near	near	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past		the master		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic
2	be	present		horse		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	present	man	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	touch	infinitive		man		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
5	go	can	no one		near man	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location

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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