The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 92

About eight days afterward the wicked Queen said to the clerk of the kitchen, “I will sup on little Day.”

Who acts: eight days · What happens: say, sup · To what, where: clerk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eight days), 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	About	about	ADV	_	2 eight	advmod
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
4	afterward	afterward	ADP	_	7 Queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Queen	amod
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 clerk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clerk	det
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kitchen	det
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clerk	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sup	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 sup	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sup	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sup	aux
19	sup	sup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 Day	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Day	amod
22	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sup	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sup	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 sup	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	eight days afterward the wicked Queen		the clerk of the kitchen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to clerk=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sup in a quote	future	eight days afterward the wicked Queen = day				on little Day		vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on day=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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