The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 74

The seventh Simon answered the nurse: “We come from the country of the wise and good King Archidej,” said he, “and we have brought all sorts of goods for sale.

Who acts: seventh Simon, We, country, Simon · What happens: answer, come, say, bring, sort · To what, where: nurse, country, sorts, goods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventh Simon, We, country, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Simon	det
2	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Simon	amod
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 Archidej	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Archidej	det
16	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Archidej	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 good	cc
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wise	conj
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Archidej	compound
20	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Archidej	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 Archidej	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 country	acl:relcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 brought	cc
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 brought	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 brought	aux
30	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 said	ccomp
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 sorts	det
32	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 brought	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 goods	case
34	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 sorts	nmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 sale	case
36	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the seventh Simon	the nurse			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nurse=Eventuality
2	come in a quote	present	We		the country		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the country not said here			of the wise King Archidej	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring in a quote	present · perfect	Simon	all sorts of goods		for sale	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sort=Theme
5	sort in a quote			goods			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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