The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 104

“Oh, he will be back in an hour,” replied the king, “and I will give him my best horse, so that he will be sure to catch you up.”

Who acts: son, hour · What happens: be, reply, give, catch up · To what, where: king, best horse, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, hour), 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	_	10 hour	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 hour	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hour	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hour	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hour	cop
7	back	back	ADV	_	10 hour	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hour	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replied	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hour	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 hour	punct
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replied	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 replied	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 horse	nmod:poss
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	iobj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sure	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 sure	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sure	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 sure	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 sure	cop
32	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 give	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 catch	mark
34	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sure	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 catch	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 catch	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	son			in a hour		tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	a hour	the king				tree rules
3	give in a quote	future	a hour = hour		my best horse			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme
4	is in a quote	future	son				sure property	tree rules
5	catch up in a quote	to-infinitive	son not said here	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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