The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 22

When he told us not to go into that room he must have known what he was saying, and have had a good reason for saying it.’

Who acts: father, room, good reason · What happens: tell, not go, know, say, have · To what, where: us, room, father, good reason, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, room, good reason), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	advcl
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 go	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 known	nsubj:pass
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 known	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 known	aux
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 room	acl:relcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 saying	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saying	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	aux
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 known	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux
22	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reason	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reason	amod
25	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 saying	mark
27	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 reason	acl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saying	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	father		us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here			that room	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	know	must · perfect · passive	that room not said here	father			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · progressive	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	have	present · perfect		a good reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
6	say speech: assert	gerund	a good reason not said here	reason			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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