The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 49

The fourth day Paul said to them: “My friends, there must be some reason why your cooking has always been so bad, now you shall go and hunt and I will stay behind.”

Who acts: Paul, friends, cooking, trees, your · What happens: say, be, go, hunt, stay, cook · To what, where: trees, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, friends, cooking, trees), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
4	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct
10	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friends	nmod:poss
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 reason	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 friends	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 be	expl
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 reason	cop
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 reason	det
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 bad	advmod
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cooking	nmod:poss
20	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bad	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 bad	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 bad	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 bad	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 bad	advmod
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 reason	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 go	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 reason	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hunt	cc
32	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stay	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 stay	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 stay	aux
36	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
37	behind	behind	ADV	_	36 stay	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Paul		trees = tree	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	infinitive	My friends	some reason				tree rules
3	is in a quote	present · perfect	your cooking				always, bad property	tree rules
4	go in a quote	shall	trees = tree			now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hunt in a quote	infinitive	trees = tree not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stay in a quote	future	Paul				behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cook in a quote		your					nom cooking «act intransitive»: 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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