The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 65

“Sit down on the bank by me,” said the old man, when he came back, “and begin to play, and in a little while the people will flock round you.”

Who acts: old man, man, people · What happens: sit down, say, come back, begin, play, flock · To what, where: bank, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, people), 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 Sit	punct
2	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Sit	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sit	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sit	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 begin	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 begin	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 begin	cc
23	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 play	mark
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 begin	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flock	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 flock	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 little	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 flock	obl
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 flock	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 people	det
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flock	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 flock	aux
35	flock	flock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
36	round	round	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 flock	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 flock	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 flock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down in a quote	infinitive		the bank	by the old man = man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come back	past	man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin in a quote	infinitive	man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	play in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	flock in a quote	future	the people	a little	round you	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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