The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 94

“Tell me at once what has happened,” said the herdsman sternly.

Who acts: herdsman · What happens: tell, happen, say · To what, where: me · 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 (herdsman), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 Tell	obl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	aux
8	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 herdsman	det
13	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen in a quote	present · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the herdsman		sternly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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