The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 58

‘Good!’ says Drakestail to himself, ‘I shall now see how they eat at court.’

Who acts: Drakestail, I, lonesome · What happens: say, see, eat · To what, where: Drakestail, court · 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 (Drakestail, I, lonesome), 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 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 says	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 see	advmod
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 eat	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 court	case
19	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Drakestail	Drakestail			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	see	shall	I			now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	eat	present	lonesome		court		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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 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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