The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 29

The man obeyed, and the king spat into it, and said: “Now spit into my mouth.”

Who acts: man · What happens: obey, say, spit · To what, where: king spat, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	nsubj
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spat	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spat	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spat	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spat	compound
8	spat	spat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obeyed	obl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spat	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obeyed	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 spit	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 spit	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 spit	advmod
17	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouth	nmod:poss
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	obey	past	the man	the king spat into spat			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spit in a quote	present			my mouth	now	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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