The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 80

Labakan went straight up to him, and, bending low, handed him the dagger, saying: “Here am I whom you seek.”

Who acts: Labakan, you · What happens: go, bend, hand, say, be, seek · To what, where: person, dagger · 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 (Labakan, you), 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	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bending	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bending	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bending	punct
10	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
11	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bending	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handed	punct
13	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 handed	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dagger	det
16	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saying	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 handed	advcl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Here	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Here	punct
21	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 saying	ccomp
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Here	cop
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Here	nsubj
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 seek	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 seek	nsubj
26	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Here	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Labakan		person		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	bend	gerund	Labakan not said here			low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hand	past	Labakan not said here	the dagger	person		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination dagger=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Labakan not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Labakan			here property	tree rules
6	seek in a quote	present	you				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme

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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