The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 6

Next St. John’s eve the man again said that he could not go on in this way, losing all the grass in the outlying field year after year, and that one of his sons must just go there and watch it, and watch well too.

Who acts: Next eve, man, one · What happens: say, not go on, lose, outlie, go, watch · To what, where: way, grass, field · 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 (Next eve, man, one), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eve	amod
2	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 John	nmod:desc
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eve	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 John	case
5	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 man	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 go	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 losing	punct
20	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 go	advcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 grass	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grass	det
23	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 losing	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 year	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 year	det
26	outlying	outlie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 year	compound
27	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 outlying	obj
28	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 losing	obl
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 year	case
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 year	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 go	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 go	cc
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 one	mark
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 go	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sons	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sons	nmod:poss
37	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
39	just	just	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 go	advmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 watch	cc
43	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 go	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 watch	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 watch	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 watch	cc
47	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 go	parataxis
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 watch	advmod
49	too	too	ADV	_	47 watch	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	John St.'s Next eve					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go on	could	man		this way			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
3	lose	gerund	man not said here	all grass		year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Eventuality
4	outlie	gerund		field				tree rules
5	go	must	one of man's sons		there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	watch	infinitive	one of man's sons not said here	grass				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	watch	infinitive					well property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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