The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 160

Schurka and I will look after you,’ said Waska.

Who acts: Schurka, Waska · What happens: look, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schurka, Waska), 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	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 I	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Schurka	conj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Waska	Waska	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	future	Schurka				after you		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Waska						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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