The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 6

‘I will,’ says he, ‘but going on all-fours you will soon be tired.

Who acts: you · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: friend, fours · 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), 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	_	6 says	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 will	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 going	cc
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 says	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 fours	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 fours	det
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
15	fours	four	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 going	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tired	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	aux
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 tired	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 tired	cop
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 going	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	go	gerund			all fours		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on four=Location
3	is	future	you			soon, tired property	tree rules

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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