The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 6

‘But the boy told me there were seven of you, and there are only six here,’ said the king.

Who acts: boy, seven, six · What happens: tell, be, say · To what, where: me, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, seven, six), 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	_	5 told	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 were	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 seven	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 are	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 are	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 are	expl
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 six	advmod
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 are	nsubj
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 six	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the boy		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	past	seven of you			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	present	six			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past		the king			tree rules

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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