The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 96

“Now, young man,” said the rich stranger, “I am going to give you a vessel which will take you back to your own country.”

Who acts: young man · What happens: say, go, give, take · To what, where: vessel, you · 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 (young man), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 man	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stranger	det
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stranger	amod
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 give	mark
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	xcomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 vessel	det
21	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 take	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 take	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	24 take	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 country	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 country	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 country	amod
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 back	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	young man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	young man = man			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	to-infinitive	young man = man not said here	a vessel	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient vessel=Theme
4	take in a quote	future			you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination

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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