The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 25

“You didn’t lie long in the barn, if even you have been so far as the field!” said they.

Who acts: You, saddle · What happens: not lie, be, say · To what, where: barn · 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 (You, saddle), 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 lie	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lie	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 lie	advmod
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 lie	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 barn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 barn	det
9	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 far	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 far	mark
12	even	even	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 far	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 far	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 far	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 lie	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 field	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 field	det
20	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 far	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not lie in a quote	past · do-support	You	the barn	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barn=Location
2	is in a quote	present · perfect	you		as the field; far property	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	saddle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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