The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 8

‘Oh, yes,’ said the little man, ‘You were just about to run away, but you have taken upon you to stand sentinel in the church to-night, and there you must stay.’

Who acts: little man, You · What happens: say, run away, take, stand, stay · To what, where: sentinel, church · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 run	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 run	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 about	advmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 run	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 run	mark
18	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 run	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taken	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 taken	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 taken	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 taken	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 stand	mark
28	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 taken	xcomp
29	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stand	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 church	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 church	det
32	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stand	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 night	case
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 to	punct
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stand	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stay	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 stay	cc
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 stay	advmod
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 stay	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 stay	aux
41	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 taken	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	run away	past	You				about, away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	present · perfect	you				upon you	vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	stand	to-infinitive	you not said here	sentinel	the church	night		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sentinel=Theme in church=Destination
5	stay	must	you		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP 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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