The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 61

The King was delighted, and the man said, ‘I will come and fetch it in fourteen days.’

Who acts: King, man, I · What happens: be, say, come, fetch · To what, where: much · 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 (King, man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fetch	cc
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 days	case
19	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 days	nummod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fetch	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			delighted property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	future	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive	I not said here	much	day		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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