The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 159

He went, say they, to the King, and told him that, if he desired it, he would bring him news from the army before night.

Who acts: Thumb · What happens: go, say, tell, desire, bring · To what, where: folks, that, Thumb, drank, news, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thumb), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 told	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desired	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 desired	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 desired	nsubj
18	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 desired	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bring	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 desired	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 army	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 army	det
28	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 night	case
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	Thumb					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Thumb not said here	folks = folk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	Thumb not said here	that	Thumb			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
4	desire a condition, not said to happen	past	Thumb	drank				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	bring	would	Thumb	news	King	the army	night	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination news=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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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