The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 24

‘If you will only come,’ said the Count to her when next he rode by, ‘I will send away the Countess, and will marry you.’

Who acts: you, Count, I · What happens: come, say, ride by, send away, marry · To what, where: Count, Countess, 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 (you, Count, 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	_	9 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Count	det
11	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 rode	nmod:poss
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 rode	advmod
15	next	next	ADV	_	17 rode	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rode	nsubj
17	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 rode	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 send	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 send	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 send	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 send	aux
23	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 rode	conj
24	away	away	ADP	_	23 send	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Countess	det
26	Countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 send	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 marry	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 marry	cc
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 marry	aux
30	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 marry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come a condition, not said to happen	future	you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Count		tree rules
3	ride by	past	Count		next property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	send away	future	I	the Countess		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countess=Theme
5	marry	future		you		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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