The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 90

He came to Little Lasse and said, ‘Would you like to sail round the world?’

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: come, say, like, sail · To what, where: Little, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Little	case
4	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	obl
5	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Little	flat
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
10	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sail	mark
14	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 like	xcomp
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 world	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sail	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come	past	boy	Little	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to little=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	would	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sail not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the world	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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