The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 80

He answered, ‘I am a messenger of the King, and have been sent to seek the finest salad that grows under the sun. I have been so lucky as to find it, and am bringing it with me; but the heat of the sun is so great that the tender cabbage threatens to grow soft, and I do not know if I shall be able to bring it any farther.’

Who acts: Hunter, I, finest salad, heat, tender cabbage, sun · What happens: answer, be, send, seek, grow, find · To what, where: messenger, finest salad, sun., salad, heat · 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, I, finest salad, heat), 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 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 messenger	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 messenger	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 messenger	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 messenger	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 messenger	det
8	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answered	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 King	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 messenger	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 sent	aux:pass
16	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 answered	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seek	mark
18	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sent	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 salad	det
20	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 salad	amod
21	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seek	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 grows	nsubj
23	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 salad	acl:relcl
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 sun.	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sun.	det
26	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lucky	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lucky	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 lucky	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 lucky	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 lucky	advmod
31	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grows	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 find	mark
33	to	to	PART	_	34 find	mark
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 lucky	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 find	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bringing	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 bringing	cc
38	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 bringing	aux
39	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 seek	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bringing	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 bringing	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 great	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 great	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 heat	det
46	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 great	nsubj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 sun	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sun	det
49	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 heat	nmod
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 great	cop
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 great	advmod
52	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 answered	conj
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 threatens	mark
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 cabbage	det
55	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 cabbage	compound
56	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 threatens	nsubj
57	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 great	advcl
58	to	to	PART	_	59 grow	mark
59	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 threatens	xcomp
60	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 grow	xcomp
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 know	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 know	cc
63	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	66 know	nsubj
64	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	66 know	aux
65	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 know	advmod
66	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	parataxis
67	if	if	SCONJ	_	71 able	mark
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 able	nsubj
69	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 able	aux
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 able	cop
71	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 know	ccomp
72	to	to	PART	_	73 bring	mark
73	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 able	xcomp
74	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 bring	obj
75	any	any	ADV	_	76 farther	advmod
76	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	73 bring	advmod
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	66 know	punct
78	’	'	PUNCT	_	66 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Hunter				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	I	a messenger		of the King	tree rules
3	send	present · perfect · passive					tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive		the finest salad			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salad=Theme
5	grow	present	the finest salad				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present · perfect	I		the sun.	lucky property	tree rules
7	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	salad			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
8	bring	present · progressive		salad		with me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
9	is	present	the heat of the sun			great property	tree rules
10	threaten	present	the tender cabbage				tree rules
11	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the tender cabbage not said here			soft property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
13	is a condition, not said to happen	shall	I			able property	tree rules
14	bring	to-infinitive	I not said here	heat		far property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
15	heat		the sun				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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