The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 7

‘Hullo, my fine fellow,’ said the man, ‘I see you have three fat sheep.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: say, see, have · To what, where: man, three fat sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Hullo	hullo	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nmod:poss
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	ccomp
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 sheep	nummod
19	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sheep	amod
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	see	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	present	you	three fat sheep	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient

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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