The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 57

'Then enter, for I have great need of such a one,' said the giant.

Who acts: I · What happens: enter, have, say · To what, where: great need, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	3 enter	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 enter	advmod
3	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 enter	ccomp
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 need	amod
9	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 one	case
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 need	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 enter	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	enter	infinitive			then	tree rules
2	have	present	I	great need of such one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past		the giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic

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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