The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 44

‘Fear nothing,’ said the horse; ‘just say you want me and fifty pieces of gold.’

Who acts: nothing · What happens: say, want · To what, where: horse, you, 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 (nothing), 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	_	3 nothing	punct
2	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	compound
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	obj
14	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 want	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pieces	cc
17	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pieces	nummod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 want	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pieces	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	nothing	the horse	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
2	say speech: assert	infinitive		you	tree rules
3	want	infinitive		me	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme piece=Attribute

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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