The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 91

And he said, ‘I will go to the kitchen and fetch it myself.’

Who acts: Hunter, I · What happens: say, go, fetch · To what, where: kitchen · 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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 kitchen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kitchen	det
11	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fetch	cc
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fetch	obj
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 fetch	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hunter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	future	I		the kitchen		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Initial_Location
3	fetch	present	I not said here	kitchen		myself obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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