The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 54

‘Tell me, heron,’ said he, ‘when the wind blows from that quarter, to which side do you turn?’

Who acts: heron, wind, you · What happens: tell, say, blow, turn · To what, where: heron, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heron, wind, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heron	punct
5	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 blows	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blows	nsubj
15	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 turn	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 quarter	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 quarter	det
18	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blows	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 side	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blows	conj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 turn	aux
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 turn	nsubj
25	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive		heron	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	heron				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	blow	present	the wind			from that quarter	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from quarter=Co-Patient
4	turn	present · do-support	you				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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