The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 26

The said Man-Mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk or lie down in a meadow or field of corn.

Who acts: said Man Mountain, Mountain · What happens: say, confine, not offer, walk, lie down · To what, where: walks, principal high roads, meadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (said Man Mountain, Mountain), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mountain	det
2	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Mountain	amod
3	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Mountain	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Man	punct
5	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confine	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 confine	aux
7	confine	confine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 walks	nmod:poss
9	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 confine	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 roads	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 roads	nmod:poss
12	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 roads	amod
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 roads	amod
14	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 confine	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 offer	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offer	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 offer	advmod
18	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 confine	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 walk	mark
20	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 offer	xcomp
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 lie	cc
22	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 walk	conj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 lie	compound:prt
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 meadow	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 meadow	det
26	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lie	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 field	cc
28	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meadow	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 corn	case
30	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 field	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 confine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	confine	shall	the said Man Mountain	Mountain's walks	our principal high roads	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme to road=Destination
3	not offer	infinitive	the said Man Mountain not said here			tree rules
4	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the said Man Mountain not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lie down	infinitive	the said Man Mountain not said here		a meadow or field of corn	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location
6	walk		Mountain			nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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