The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 51

‘Tell him that it is I, and I have come he well knows why.’

Who acts: you, room, I, King · What happens: tell, be, come, know · To what, where: King, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, room, I, King), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 I	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 I	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 I	cop
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	ccomp
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knows	nsubj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 knows	advmod
15	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	parataxis
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 knows	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	present	room	I			tree rules
3	come	present · perfect	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	present	King			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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