The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 66

“Comrades,” said he, “you have had wonderful adventures; but I will tell you something still more astonishing that happened to myself.

Who acts: Comrades, party, astonishing · What happens: say, have, tell, happen · To what, where: wonderful adventures, something, you, Comrades · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comrades, party, astonishing), 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 Comrades	punct
2	Comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Comrades	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Comrades	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 had	aux
11	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 adventures	amod
13	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 tell	obj
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 astonishing	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 astonishing	advmod
23	astonishing	astonishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 something	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 happened	nsubj
25	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 astonishing	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 myself	case
27	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 happened	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Comrades			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present · perfect	party	wonderful adventures		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Comrades = comrade	something	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
4	happen in a quote	past	astonishing		Comrades = comrade	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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