The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 52

“Well, then, I will go all alone by myself,” said Cinderlad.

Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: go, say · 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 (Cinderlad), 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	_	8 go	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 go	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 alone	advmod
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 myself	case
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	Cinderlad				then	by Cinderlad; alone property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by myself=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Cinderlad						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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