The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 68

“I am Shepherd Paul,” said the young man, “and I have come to fight you, and as I am in a hurry we had better begin at once.”

Who acts: Shepherd Paul, we, hurry · What happens: be, say, come, fight, have, begin · To what, where: Shepherd Paul, you, hurry · 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 (Shepherd Paul, we, hurry), 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	_	5 Paul	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 Paul	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Paul	cop
4	Shepherd	Shepherd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Paul	compound
5	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Paul	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Paul	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fight	mark
19	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 fight	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hurry	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hurry	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 hurry	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 hurry	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hurry	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hurry	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hurry	det
28	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	parataxis
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hurry	acl:relcl
31	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 begin	advmod
32	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 begin	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 hurry	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 hurry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Shepherd Paul = paul	Shepherd Paul			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Shepherd Paul				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	Shepherd Paul = paul				tree rules
4	fight in a quote	to-infinitive	Shepherd Paul = paul not said here	you			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Shepherd Paul = paul		a hurry		tree rules
6	have in a quote	past	we	a hurry not said here			tree rules
7	begin in a quote	infinitive	a hurry not said here			well property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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