The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 52

Here he would meet some men, to whom he was to hand a dagger which Elfi Bey gave him, and to say “Here am I for whom you seek.”

Who acts: Elfi · What happens: meet, be, give, say · To what, where: men, dagger, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elfi), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 meet	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meet	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 meet	aux
4	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meet	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hand	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 whom	case
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hand	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hand	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hand	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hand	mark
13	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meet	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dagger	det
15	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hand	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 gave	obj
17	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 gave	nsubj
18	Bey	Bey	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Elfi	flat
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dagger	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 say	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 say	mark
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meet	conj
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Here	punct
26	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 say	advmod
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 seek	cop
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 seek	nsubj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 whom	case
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 seek	obl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 seek	nsubj
32	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 say	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meet	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	would	Elfi	some men		here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	is	past	Elfi				hand property	tree rules
3	give	past	Elfi	a dagger	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Elfi not said here			here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	Elfi				seek property	tree rules

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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