The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 4

He said to him, ‘Will you be my servant and travel with me?’

Who acts: man, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: King, 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, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct
7	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 servant	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 servant	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 servant	cop
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 servant	nmod:poss
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 travel	cc
13	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 servant	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 travel	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 travel	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man		King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	is a	future	you	my servant and travel with me					tree rules

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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