The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 3
He would gladly accompany them for some part of their way, he said, and that he did.
Who acts: husbandman · What happens: accompany, say, do · To what, where: sons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbandman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 accompany | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 accompany | aux |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 accompany | advmod |
| 4 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 accompany | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accompany | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accompany | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accompany | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | would | husbandman | sons = son | for some part of sons's way; gladly property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | husbandman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | husbandman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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