The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 80

So the griffin alighted and ate his fill, saying, as he flew away, ‘Call me if you need me.’

Who acts: griffin, you · What happens: alight, eat, say, fly away, call, need · To what, where: griffin, fill, me · 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 (griffin, 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 griffin	det
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
4	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 griffin	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 alighted	cc
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fill	nmod:poss
8	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ate	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Call	advcl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 flew	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Call	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Call	punct
18	Call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saying	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Call	obj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 need	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 need	nsubj
22	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Call	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 need	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	alight	participle		the griffin not said here			tree rules
2	eat	past	the griffin	griffin's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the griffin not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fly away	past	griffin			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	infinitive			me		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	need a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=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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