The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 40

This flattering speech pleased the dragons, and the eldest of them said, ‘Well, you may come with me, and I will take you to the Mother Dragon.’

Who acts: flattering speech, you, I · What happens: say, come, take · To what, where: you, Mother Dragon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flattering speech, you, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 speech	det
2	flattering	flattering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 speech	amod
3	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dragons	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragons	det
6	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 speech	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eldest	det
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 said	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eldest	nmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
16	Well	well	INTJ	_	20 come	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Well	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 Dragon	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Dragon	det
31	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Dragon	compound
32	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	this flattering speech and the pleased dragons				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	may	you			with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	future	I	you	the Mother Dragon		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to dragon=Destination

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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