The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 41

The king thought upon these words, and at last he said to Ciccu, ‘Ciccu, I shall never rest until you bring me back the Man-eater himself.

Who acts: king, I, you · What happens: think, say, not rest, bring back · To what, where: last, Ciccu, Man eater, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rest	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rest	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rest	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 last	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Ciccu	case
14	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Ciccu	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Ciccu	punct
17	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Ciccu	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 last	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 rest	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 rest	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 rest	advmod
22	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	conj
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 bring	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 bring	nsubj
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 rest	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 bring	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 bring	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 eater	det
29	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eater	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Man	punct
31	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 eater	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the king				upon this words	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	king	last not said here	Ciccu and Ciccu			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent last=Topic to ciccu=Recipient
3	not rest	shall	I			last		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at last=Location
4	bring back	infinitive	you	the Man eater Ciccu	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination eater=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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