The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 112

By-and-bye the shoemaker came in and said, ‘Good morning, gentlemen; the dog tells me you wish to speak to me.’

Who acts: shoemaker, dog, you · What happens: come in, say, tell, wish, speak · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoemaker, dog, 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	bye	bye	INTJ	_	8 came	discourse
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoemaker	det
7	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
14	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gentlemen	punct
17	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 morning	vocative
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tells	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tells	nsubj
21	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tells	iobj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 wish	nsubj
24	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tells	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 speak	mark
26	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wish	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 speak	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 tells	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	come in	past	the shoemaker		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the shoemaker not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present	the dog	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wish	present	you		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-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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