The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 23

‘Father,’ he said gravely, ‘I have come to bid you farewell.

Who acts: Father, I · What happens: say, come, bid · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, I), 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 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	gravely	gravely	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
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	6 said	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bid	mark
14	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bid	obj
16	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	14 bid	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Father		gravely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	present · perfect	I			tree rules
3	bid	to-infinitive	I not said here	you	farewell 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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