The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 71

And the youth said to the hermit, ‘Good father, before we were three, and now we are four.’

Who acts: youth, we · What happens: say, be · To what, where: hermit, four · 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 (youth, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hermit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hermit	det
7	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
10	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hermit	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 three	punct
13	before	before	ADP	_	16 three	case
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 three	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 three	cop
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 four	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 four	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 four	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 four	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 four	cop
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 three	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the youth		the hermit and Good father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hermit=Recipient
2	is	past	we			before three	tree rules
3	is a	present	we	four		now	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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