The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 70

“What did I tell you?” said the old man, as they passed through the garden gate.

Who acts: old man, coins · What happens: tell, say, pass · To what, where: you, garden gate · 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, coins), 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 tell	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passed	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 passed	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 passed	nsubj
16	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
17	through	through	ADP	_	20 gate	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gate	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gate	compound
20	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	the old man = man	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
2	say speech: ask	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	past	coins = coin		the garden gate	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gate=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 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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