The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 16

“Well, well, I will soon find a cure for that; I have only to call my river-sucker,” said the giant, and he did call him.

Who acts: I, giant · What happens: find, have, call, say · To what, where: cure, river sucker, giant, drop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, giant), 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	_	9 find	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 find	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	9 find	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cure	det
11	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 cure	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 find	ccomp
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 call	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 call	mark
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 have	xcomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sucker	nmod:poss
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sucker	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 river	punct
23	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 call	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 giant	det
28	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 call	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 call	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 call	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 call	aux
33	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	parataxis
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 call	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	future	I	a cure		for that; soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent cure=Attribute clause=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	I				tree rules
3	call in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	my river sucker			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sucker=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past		the giant			tree rules
5	call	past · do-support	giant		drop		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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