The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 22

‘Yes; but I must have a good stable and most excellent fodder for my horse,’ said he.

Who acts: I, King · What happens: have, say · To what, where: good stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	7 have	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 have	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 have	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stable	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stable	amod
10	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fodder	cc
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 excellent	advmod
13	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fodder	amod
14	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stable	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 horse	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 horse	nmod:poss
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fodder	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	I	a good stable and excellent fodder for my horse					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	King						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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