The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 23

“I have thought of exactly the thing for you,” said the herdsman as they walked along, “and it is so simple that you cannot make a mistake.

Who acts: herdsman, cattle, thing, you · What happens: think, say, walk, be, not make · To what, where: mistake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman, cattle, thing, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 thing	case
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 thing	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 herdsman	det
15	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 walked	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 walked	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 simple	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 simple	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 simple	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 simple	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 simple	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 simple	advmod
26	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 walked	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 make	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 make	advmod
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 simple	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mistake	det
33	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	the herdsman = herdsman		of the thing for you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the herdsman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	walk	past	cattle		along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	thing		simple property	tree rules
5	not make in a quote	can	you	a mistake		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product

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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