The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 21

‘I told you, my lord, that I have to look after my grandmother.’

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, have, look · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	3 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lord	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lord	nmod:poss
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 you	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 grandmother	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grandmother	nmod:poss
16	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	present	I			tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive	I not said here		after my grandmother	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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