The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 63

“I will see about that,” said the giant, and went out to the stable, but the horse was standing there just as the Prince had said.

Who acts: I, horse, Prince · What happens: see, say, go out, stand · To what, where: giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horse, Prince), 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	_	4 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 stable	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stable	det
18	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 standing	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 standing	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 standing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 standing	advmod
26	just	just	ADV	_	31 said	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 said	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Prince	det
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	aux
31	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 standing	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	I			about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the giant			tree rules
3	go out	past				to the stable; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past · progressive	the horse		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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