The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 70

'Nay,' said Covan smiling, 'it had been easier for you to have driven them out than to come here to tell me.'

Who acts: Covan, it, you · What happens: say, smile, be, drive out, come, tell · To what, where: Covan, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Covan, it, you), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	smiling	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Covan	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 easier	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 easier	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 easier	cop
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 said	nsubj
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 driven	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 driven	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 driven	mark
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 driven	aux
18	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 easier	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 driven	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	18 driven	compound:prt
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 easier	xcomp
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tell	mark
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Covan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	smile	gerund	Covan not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	it				easy property	tree rules
4	drive out	to-infinitive · perfect	you	Covan				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	come	to-infinitive				here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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