The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 30

But when my father says ‘Go to thy wife, king’s son,’ come to the one whose right hand has no little finger.’

Who acts: father, one · What happens: say, go, come, have · To what, where: little finger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 says	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
7	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 son	punct
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
16	’	'	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 Go	conj
18	to	to	SCONJ	_	24 has	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 hand	nmod:poss
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hand	amod
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	advcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 finger	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 finger	amod
27	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive			to thy wife and king's son	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
3	come	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	the one	no little finger		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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 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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