The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 28

When this was agreed upon and settled, the man strapped on the runner’s other leg, saying to him, ‘Now be nimble, and see that we win!’

Who acts: we · What happens: agree, settle, strap, say, be, see · To what, where: this, man · 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 (we), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 agreed	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 agreed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	aux:pass
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 settled	advcl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 agreed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 settled	cc
7	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 settled	obl
11	strapped	strap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 man	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	17 leg	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 runner	det
14	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leg	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 runner	case
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 leg	amod
17	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strapped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 settled	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saying	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 nimble	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 nimble	punct
24	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 nimble	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 nimble	cop
26	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saying	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 settled	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 win	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 win	nsubj
32	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 see	advcl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past · passive		this				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
2	settle	past		the man				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strap	participle		the man not said here			on the runner's other leg	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on leg=Co-Patient
4	say speech: assert	gerund			man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	is	infinitive				now	nimble property	tree rules
6	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	win	present	we					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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