The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 67

‘I will,’ says the knight, ‘so go on with your story.’

What happens: say, go on · To what, where: knight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	6 says	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 will	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knight	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 go	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 story	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 story	nmod:poss
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the knight					tree rules
2	go on	infinitive						with your story	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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