The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 88

‘Thank you,’ said the merchant’s son, and he went into the wood, sat himself in his trunk, flew on to the roof, and crept through the window into the princess’s room.

Who acts: son · What happens: thank, say, go, sit, fly, creep · To what, where: you, son, wood, trunk, window · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 merchant	det
8	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 merchant	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 sat	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 trunk	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 trunk	nmod:poss
23	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
26	on	on	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 roof	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roof	det
29	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 flew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crept	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 crept	cc
32	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 window	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 window	det
35	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crept	obl
36	into	into	ADP	_	40 room	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princess	det
38	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 room	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 princess	case
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crept	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the merchant's son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Topic
3	go	past	son			the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
4	sit	past		son		son's trunk		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in trunk=Location
5	fly	past					to the roof result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roof=Result
6	creep	past				the window	into the princess's room	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=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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