The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 103

“But somebody must have it,” said the King, “for with our own eyes we all saw a man ride up and take it.”

Who acts: somebody, King, we, man · What happens: have, say, see, ride up, take · To what, where: turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (somebody, King, we, 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	_	5 have	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
3	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 have	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyes	amod
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saw	obl
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 we	det
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ride	nsubj
24	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 saw	xcomp
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 ride	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ride	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	must	somebody	turn		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	past	we		for our own eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	ride up in a quote	infinitive	a man			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	take in a quote	infinitive	a man not said here	turn		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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