The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 37

On this Saphir explained about the state of his father’s health, and all that has been told before.

What happens: explain, tell · To what, where: Saphir, that · 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: 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 Saphir	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Saphir	det
3	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 explained	obl
4	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 state	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 state	det
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 explained	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 health	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 health	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 told	det:predet
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 told	nsubj:pass
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 told	aux:pass
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 explained	conj
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 told	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past				this Saphir		about the state of person's father's health	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		that				before property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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