The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 76

So the fox went back to the young man and said: “I have told the king that you are Count Piro, and have asked his daughter in marriage.”

Who acts: fox, you · What happens: go back, say, tell, be, ask · To what, where: king, Count, daughter, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 Count	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 Count	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Count	cop
22	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
23	Piro	Piro	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Count	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 asked	aux
27	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 told	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughter	nmod:poss
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	iobj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 marriage	case
31	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the fox				to the young man result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to man=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	the fox not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	the fox = fox		the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent count=Recipient king=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	you	Count				tree rules
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	present · perfect	the fox = fox not said here		king's daughter	marriage		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient

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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