The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 63

Of the night’s adventures he said not a word, and when they asked where he got the sword, he only pointed in the direction of the castle, and said, “Over that way.”

Who acts: Niels, words, night · What happens: not say, ask, get, point, say, adventure · To what, where: word, sword · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels, words, night), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	5 adventures	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 adventures	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 night	case
5	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 said	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pointed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pointed	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 asked	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pointed	advcl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 got	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sword	det
20	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pointed	nsubj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 pointed	advmod
24	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 direction	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 direction	det
27	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pointed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 castle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 direction	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 way	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 way	punct
36	Over	over	ADP	_	38 way	case
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 way	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	Niels	a word	of the night's adventures	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	words = word			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past	Niels	the sword		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus
4	point	past	Niels		in the direction of the castle	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Niels not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	adventure		the night			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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