The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 59

‘He says that you are to throw your casket out into the sea,’ answered the step-mother.

Who acts: man, you · What happens: say, be, answer · To what, where: sea, step mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you), 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 says	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 throw	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 throw	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 throw	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 throw	mark
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answered	advcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 casket	nmod:poss
10	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	8 throw	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 throw	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 throw	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	you		the sea	out, throw property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past		the step mother			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality

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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