The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 51

He said to the maiden, ‘We will sit down for a little while and rest; I am so tired that I can hardly stand on my feet.’

Who acts: Hunter, We, I · What happens: say, sit down, be, stand · To what, where: maiden, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, We, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 maiden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sit	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 sit	punct
8	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sit	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sit	aux
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sit	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 while	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 while	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 while	amod
15	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sit	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rest	cc
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 while	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 tired	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tired	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tired	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 tired	advmod
22	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 stand	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 stand	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 stand	aux
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	27 stand	advmod
27	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tired	ccomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 feet	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feet	nmod:poss
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stand	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 tired	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hunter	the maiden				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient
2	sit down	future	We			while		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I				tired property	tree rules
4	stand	can	I		my feet		hardly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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