The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 95

‘If you can do this,’ she said as she bade him farewell, ‘your friend the turtle will meet you at the shore, and will carry you back to me.’

Who acts: you, princess, turtle · What happens: do, say, bade, meet, carry back · To what, where: this, heart, you, shore, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess, turtle), 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 do	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 do	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	parataxis
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 bade	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bade	nsubj
13	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bade	obj
15	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	13 bade	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 friend	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 friend	punct
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bade	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 turtle	det
21	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meet	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 meet	aux
23	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 friend	acl:relcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 meet	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 shore	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shore	det
27	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 meet	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 carry	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 carry	cc
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 carry	aux
31	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 carry	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	31 carry	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 carry	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	can	you	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bade	past	princess	heart			your friend obl; farewell property	tree rules
4	meet	future	the turtle	you		the shore		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
5	carry back	future	princess not said here	you	me			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to i=Destination

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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