The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 5
‘Oh,’ said the gold fish, ‘I’ll take care of that.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, take · To what, where: gold fish, care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fish | compound |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the gold fish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | future | I | care | of that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of that=Initial_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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