The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 80

Then he said to him, ‘Now go home to the King, and say that if he sends any more cavalry I will blow them all into the air.’

Who acts: blower, I · What happens: say, go, send, blow · To what, where: fellow, more cavalry, wounds, air · 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 (blower, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
8	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 go	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 blow	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 sends	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sends	nsubj
20	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 blow	advcl
21	any	any	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 cavalry	amod
23	cavalry	cavalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sends	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 blow	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 blow	aux
26	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 blow	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 them	nmod:unmarked
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 air	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blow	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	blower		fellow		then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive					now	to the King; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send a condition, not said to happen	present	blower	more cavalry					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cavalry=Theme
5	blow	future	I	wounds = wound		the air			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into air=Product

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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