The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 121

Then the hermit sent for the man who could hit everything he aimed at, and said to him, ‘Just see why the messenger stays so long.’

Who acts: hermit, man, messenger · What happens: send, hit, aim, say, see, stay · To what, where: everything, Hermit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit, man, messenger), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hit	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hit	aux
10	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	acl:relcl
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 hit	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 aimed	nsubj
13	aimed	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 everything	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	13 aimed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	Just	just	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 stays	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 messenger	det
26	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stays	nsubj
27	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	ccomp
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 long	advmod
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 stays	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the hermit			then	for the man	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hit	could	the man	everything				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Co-Theme
3	aim	past	Hermit					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	say speech: assert	past	the hermit not said here		Hermit			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	stay	present	the messenger				long property	vn exist-47.1 «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 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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