The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 21

‘Well, if that is the case,’ said the manikin, ‘sit down beside me; we can rest for a little and have something to eat.

Who acts: that, we · What happens: be, say, sit down, rest, have, eat · To what, where: case, manikin, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 case	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 case	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 case	mark
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 case	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 case	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 case	det
8	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 case	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 case	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 manikin	det
13	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sit	compound:prt
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sit	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 rest	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 rest	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 rest	aux
23	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 little	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 little	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rest	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rest	conj
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 have	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 eat	mark
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 something	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	that	the case		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the manikin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent manikin=Topic
3	sit down	infinitive			beside me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location
4	rest	can	we		for a little	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	we not said here	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
6	eat	to-infinitive	we not said here	something not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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