The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 122

‘If you will let me live,’ said the fish, ‘you will find on the sands to-morrow morning two beautiful horses splendidly saddled and bridled, and on them you can go through the world as knights seeking adventures.’

Who acts: you, me, fish, two beautiful horses, knights · What happens: let, live, say, find, saddle, bridle · To what, where: me, sands, world, adventures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, fish, two beautiful horses), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 let	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 sands	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sands	det
20	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 find	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 morning	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 morning	compound
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sands	nmod
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 horses	nummod
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 horses	amod
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 saddled	nsubj
28	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	29 saddled	advmod
29	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sands	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bridled	cc
31	bridled	bridle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saddled	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 go	cc
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 go	obl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 go	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	aux
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 seeking	mark
43	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 seeking	nsubj
44	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 go	advcl
45	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 seeking	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me			tree rules
2	live	infinitive	me not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the fish				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	find	future	you		the sands to morrow morning		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	saddle	past	two beautiful horses	the sands to morrow morning not said here		splendidly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Destination
6	bridle	past	two beautiful horses not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	go	can	you		the world	on horses = horse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through world=Initial_Location
8	seek	gerund	knights	adventures			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=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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