The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 79

“Here comes a man,” said Niels; “let us ask him the way to Rome.”

Who acts: man, Niels, us · What happens: come, say, let, ask · To what, where: us, way, Niels · 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 (man, Niels, us), 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	_	3 comes	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ask	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ask	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Rome	case
19	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	a man			here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Niels				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	the way to Rome	Niels		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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