The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 106

“When the Sultan goes this evening to Subida’s palace,” said Abu Nowas, “she will be sure to tell him that Abu Nowas is dead.

Who acts: Sultan, Abu, Subida · What happens: go, say, be, tell · To what, where: palace, Abu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, Abu, Subida), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 goes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 palace	case
9	Subida	Subida	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 palace	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Subida	case
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Abu	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sure	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sure	cop
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sure	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 dead	mark
27	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dead	nsubj
28	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Abu	flat
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tell	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	the Sultan		Subida's palace	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Abu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	future	Subida				sure property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Subida not said here	Abu				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	Abu				dead property	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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