The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 36

‘There!’ exclaimed the man, ‘you _would_ have it--now we may just go on short commons.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: exclaim, have, go · To what, where: man, more, short commons

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	_	5 exclaimed	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 exclaimed	expl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	10 you	punct
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 go	advmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 commons	case
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 commons	amod
24	commons	common	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 go	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past		the man	there		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	have	would	you	more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	go	may	we		short commons	now	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on common=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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