English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 14
“Set me a task!” said he, with a voice like the roaring of an iron furnace.
Who acts: Beelzebub, iron furnace · What happens: set, say, roar · To what, where: Beelzebub · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beelzebub, iron furnace), 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 Set | punct |
| 2 | Set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Set | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 task | det |
| 5 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Set | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Set | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Set | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 voice | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 roaring | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roaring | det |
| 16 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 furnace | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 furnace | det |
| 19 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 furnace | amod |
| 20 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roaring | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | infinitive | Beelzebub | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme task=Destination | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Beelzebub | with a voice like the roaring of a iron furnace | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | roar | a iron furnace | nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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