The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 29

When seven years had passed since the smith went out to sea, it happened one morning, as he stood in the smithy, mending a plough, that a handsome young lad came in to him and said, ‘Good-day, father; my mother the mermaid sends her greetings, and says that she has had me for six years now, and you can keep me for as long.’

Who acts: smith, it, handsome young lad, mermaid, lad, you · What happens: pass, go out, happen, stand, mend, come in · To what, where: seven years, smithy, plough, smith, greetings, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, it, handsome young lad, mermaid), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 passed	advmod
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smith	det
8	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	advcl
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 sea	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happened	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 morning	nummod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 happened	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 stood	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happened	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 smithy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 smithy	det
24	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mending	punct
26	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stood	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plough	det
28	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mending	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 lad	det
32	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lad	amod
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lad	amod
34	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stood	parataxis
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 said	cc
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 came	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 day	punct
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 day	punct
43	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 day	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 Good	punct
45	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 said	ccomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 father	punct
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 day	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 mother	punct
49	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 mother	nmod:poss
50	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 mermaid	det
52	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sends	nsubj
53	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 mother	acl:relcl
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 greetings	nmod:poss
55	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 sends	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 says	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 says	cc
58	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 sends	parataxis
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 had	mark
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 had	nsubj
61	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 had	aux
62	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	58 says	ccomp
63	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 had	obj
64	for	for	ADP	_	66 years	case
65	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 years	nummod
66	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 had	obl
67	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	62 had	advmod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 keep	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 keep	cc
70	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	72 keep	nsubj
71	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 keep	aux
72	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 sends	conj
73	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	72 keep	obj
74	for	for	ADP	_	76 long	case
75	as	as	ADV	_	76 long	advmod
76	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	72 keep	advmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct
78	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		seven years				my mother obl	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	go out	past	the smith					to sea; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	past	it				morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	smith			the smithy			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in smithy=Location
5	mend	gerund	smith not said here	a plough					tree rules
6	come in	past	a handsome young lad		smith				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	say speech: assert	past	a handsome young lad not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	send	present	the mermaid	Mermaid's greetings					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
9	say speech: assert	present							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	have	present · perfect	lad	me			now; year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
11	keep	can	you	me				long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
12	greet		Mermaid						nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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