The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 39

And Iron-strong heard, and said: “Yes, he is certainly calling, we must go at once.”

Who acts: Iron, we · What happens: say, call, go · 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 (Iron, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Iron	punct
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heard	amod
5	heard	heard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Iron	list
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 calling	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 calling	punct
11	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	16 calling	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Yes	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 calling	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 calling	aux
15	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	16 calling	advmod
16	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 calling	parataxis
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 go	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 calling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Iron		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	Iron	certainly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	must	we		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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