The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 134

He went, say they, to the King, and told him that, if he desired it, he would bring him news from the army before night.

Who acts: thumb · What happens: go, say, tell, desire, bring · To what, where: folks, that, thumb, pain, news, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thumb), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 King	punct
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 told	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 desired	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 desired	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 desired	nsubj
18	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 desired	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bring	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 desired	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	obj
25	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 army	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 army	det
28	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 night	case
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	thumb					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	thumb not said here	folks = folk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	thumb not said here	that	thumb			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
4	desire a condition, not said to happen	past	thumb	pain				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	bring	would	thumb	news	King	the army	night	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination news=Theme

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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