The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 16
‘Daddy,’ said he, ‘do bring me a bagpipe.’
Who acts: Daddy · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: bagpipe, me · 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 (Daddy), 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 Daddy | punct |
| 2 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Daddy | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Daddy | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bagpipe | det |
| 13 | bagpipe | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Daddy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive · do-support | Daddy | a bagpipe | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bagpipe=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 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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