The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 65

The young man thanked them for their counsel, and Tritill and Litill then took leave of him, saying that for the present he would need them no more.

Who acts: young man, Tritill, man · What happens: thank, take, leave, say, need · To what, where: oxen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, Tritill, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thanked	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 counsel	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 counsel	nmod:poss
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
11	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 took	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Litill	cc
13	Litill	Litill	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tritill	conj
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 took	advmod
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
16	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 took	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 took	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 need	mark
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 present	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 present	det
24	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 need	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 need	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 need	aux
27	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saying	ccomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 need	obj
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 need	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the young man		oxen = ox		for oxen's counsel	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for counsel=Attribute
2	take	past	Tritill and Litill			then		vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	leave	infinitive	Tritill and Litill not said here				of man	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of he=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Tritill and Litill not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	need	would	man	oxen = ox			for the present	tree rules

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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