The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 23

But the young man said he must first go and see his mother, and the king sent him in state, with a troop of soldiers as his bodyguard.

Who acts: young man, man, king · What happens: say, go, see, send · To what, where: mother, man, state · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sent	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	nsubj
18	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sent	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 state	case
21	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 troop	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 troop	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 troop	det
25	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 soldiers	case
27	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 troop	nmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 bodyguard	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bodyguard	nmod:poss
30	bodyguard	bodyguard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the young man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	must	man			first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	man not said here	man's mother			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
4	send	past	the king	man	state	with a troop of soldiers; as king's bodyguard	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in state=Destination

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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