The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 13
‘Some meat and a couple of big loaves for the house,’ said she.
Who acts: meat · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meat), 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 meat | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 meat | det |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 couple | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 couple | det |
| 6 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meat | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 loaves | case |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 loaves | amod |
| 9 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 couple | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loaves | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meat | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 meat | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | some meat and a couple of big loaves for the house | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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