The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 119

“Take them back to your master as soon as you can,” said the old man; but the son only laughed, and said:

Who acts: old man, son · What happens: take back, say, laugh · To what, where: cattle, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. 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, son), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 Take	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 master	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obl
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Take	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 can	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 can	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 soon	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 laughed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 laughed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laughed	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 laughed	advmod
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take back in a quote	infinitive		cattle	your master	soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to master=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	laugh	past	the son				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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