The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 50

And this was what the old man said: 'You began well, my son, so things have gone well with you.

Who acts: this, old man, You, things · What happens: be, say, begin, go · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, old man, You, things), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 what	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 what	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 began	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 son	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 gone	advmod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 began	conj
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 gone	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 gone	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past	You	my son vocative; well property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	go	present · perfect	things	with you; well property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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