The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 145

When he came down he had all sorts of wonderful things to tell.

Who acts: Simon · What happens: come down, have, tell, sort · To what, where: sorts, wonderful things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	advcl
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sorts	det
8	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 things	case
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sorts	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 things	acl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come down	past	Simon		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Simon	all sorts of wonderful things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Simon not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sort			wonderful things		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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