The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 9

He answered, ‘Two miles from this place sits a fly on a branch of an oak; I want to shoot out its left eye.’

Who acts: master, Two miles, I · What happens: answer, sit, want, shoot out · To what, where: fly, branch, left eye · 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 (master, Two miles, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sits	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 sits	punct
5	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sits	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miles	nmod
10	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fly	det
12	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sits	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 branch	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 branch	det
15	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 oak	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 oak	det
18	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 branch	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sits	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 shoot	mark
23	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 want	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 shoot	compound:prt
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eye	nmod:poss
26	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eye	amod
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shoot	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sits	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	master			tree rules
2	sit	present	Two miles from this place	a fly	a branch of a oak	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme on branch=Location
3	want	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	shoot out not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	oak's left eye		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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