The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 10

“How can I go to the King,” said the gardener, “a poor wretch like me?”

Who acts: gardener · What happens: go, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener), 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 go	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gardener	det
13	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wretch	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 wretch	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wretch	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wretch	amod
18	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gardener	appos
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wretch	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 wretch	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 wretch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	can	the gardener = gardener					to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the gardener						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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