The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 44

His wife then spoke up and said, ‘You must set out, good man, and see about him, for it is him, I am perfectly certain.

Who acts: wife, You, course, I · What happens: speak up, say, set out, see, be · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, You, course, I), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spoke	advmod
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 spoke	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 set	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 set	aux
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	vocative
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 set	conj
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 him	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 him	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 him	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 him	cop
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 certain	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 certain	nsubj
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 certain	cop
30	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	31 certain	advmod
31	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spoke	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak up speech: other	past	Peter's wife		then		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Peter's wife not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	set out	must	You			good man vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive	You not said here			about man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	course	man			tree rules
6	is	present	I			certain, perfectly property	tree rules

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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