The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 66

I said: ‘Oh my son! if there must be fruit of this fancy of yours, I will lead forth a great army against King Quimus.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, lead, fancy · To what, where: fruit, great army, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 fruit	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 fruit	punct
5	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 fruit	discourse
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Oh	vocative
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Oh	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 be	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 be	expl
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 fruit	cop
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fancy	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 fancy	det
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fruit	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 yours	case
18	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fancy	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lead	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 lead	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 lead	aux
22	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
23	forth	forth	ADV	_	22 lead	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 army	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 army	amod
26	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lead	obj
27	against	against	ADP	_	29 Quimus	case
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Quimus	compound
29	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 army	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive		fruit	of this fancy of yours	tree rules
3	lead	future	I	a great army	against King Quimus; forth property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme against quimus=Destination
4	fancy			yours		nom fancy «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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