The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 78

Then said the horse, ‘You must get down and sit upon that stone, for I must enter the castle alone.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: say, get down, sit, enter · To what, where: horse, stone, castle · 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 (You, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
7	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sit	cc
12	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 get	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 stone	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 enter	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 enter	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 enter	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 enter	aux
20	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sit	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 castle	det
22	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 enter	obj
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 enter	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the horse		then		tree rules
2	get down	must	You				down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	sit	present	You not said here		that stone			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location
4	enter	must	I	the castle			alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=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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