The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 108

One day, when he and his horse were talking together, the Horse said to him, ‘Listen to me, for I love you and wish for your good and that of the country.

Who acts: son, Horse, I · What happens: talk, say, listen, love, wish · To what, where: son, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Horse, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talking	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 talking	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talking	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horse	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 he	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talking	aux
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	conj
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 talking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Horse	det
14	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Listen	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Listen	punct
20	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Listen	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 love	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 love	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 love	nsubj
26	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Listen	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 love	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wish	cc
29	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 love	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 good	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 good	nmod:poss
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wish	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 country	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 country	mark
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 country	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 country	det
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 good	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	son				together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Horse		son	day		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	listen	infinitive			me			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
4	love	present	I	you				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	wish	present	I not said here				for your good and the country	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for good=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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