The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 22

The captain received me with kindness, and asked me to tell him what place I came from last; but at my answer he thought I was raving.

Who acts: captain, I, my · What happens: receive, ask, tell, come, think, rave · To what, where: me, place, captain, last, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, I, my), 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	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 received	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 kindness	case
6	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 place	dep
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 place	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 thought	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 answer	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 answer	nmod:poss
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thought	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 raving	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 raving	aux
29	raving	rave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 thought	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the captain	me			with kindness	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the captain not said here		me			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the captain not said here	place	captain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic
4	come	past	I	place not said here		last		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	captain			my answer		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	rave speech: other	past · progressive	I					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	answer		my					nom answer «communication 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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