The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 30

At last one very clever old woman said: “Did not the young man who brought the dagger call him whom your majesty believes to be your son Labakan, and say he was a crazy tailor?”

Who acts: clever old woman, young man, dagger, majesty · What happens: say, bring, call, believe, be · To what, where: man, son, crazy tailor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clever old woman, young man, dagger, majesty), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 one	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
11	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 man	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 brought	nsubj
17	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dagger	det
19	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 call	nsubj
20	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 brought	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 call	obj
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 believes	obj
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 majesty	nmod:poss
24	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 believes	nsubj
25	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 call	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	29 son	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 son	cop
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 believes	obj
30	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 son	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 say	cc
33	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tailor	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 tailor	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tailor	det
37	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tailor	amod
38	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 say	ccomp
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	clever old woman			at last one	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring in a quote	past	the young man				tree rules
3	call in a quote	infinitive	the dagger		man		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	believe in a quote	present	your majesty				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		your son			tree rules
6	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	past	dagger	a crazy tailor			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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