The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 88

At length he collected himself enough to say:—“If this young man will enlist in my army I will let him off.

Who acts: story, young man · What happens: collect, say, enlist, let off · To what, where: story, length, army · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, young man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 collected	nsubj
4	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 collected	obj
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 collected	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 collected	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 collected	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 enlist	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 enlist	punct
12	If	if	SCONJ	_	17 enlist	mark
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enlist	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 enlist	aux
17	enlist	enlist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 collected	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 army	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 army	nmod:poss
20	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 enlist	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	23 let	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	past	story	story	length	enough property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	story not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	enlist a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	this young man				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	let off in a quote	future	story	story	my army		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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