The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 26

This was reported to the man who declared he would compete, ‘but,’ he said, ‘I shall let my servant run for me.’

Who acts: man, Six, I, servant · What happens: report, declare, compete, ‘, say, let · To what, where: This, man, servant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (man, Six, I, servant), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 reported	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	aux:pass
3	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reported	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 declared	nsubj
8	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 compete	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 compete	aux
11	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 declared	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 compete	conj
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 compete	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servant	nmod:poss
25	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
26	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 run	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reported	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 reported	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	report	past · passive		This	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to man=Recipient
2	declare speech: other	past	the man				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	compete	would	Six				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	‘	infinitive	Six not said here				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Six				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let	shall	I	my servant			tree rules
7	run	infinitive	my servant not said here			for me	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary

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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