The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 30

‘A short time since there was a man here who said he could do it,’ said the King’s daughter.

Who acts: short time, man · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: man, hold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (short time, man), 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 man	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nsubj
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 man	advmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 King	case
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	a short time	a man	here	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	could	man	hold		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	a man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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