The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 85

‘Never fear,’ said his fleet-footed comrade, ‘I will fetch what the King wants.’

Who acts: I, King · What happens: not fear, say, fetch, want · To what, where: footed comrade · 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 (I, King), 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	_	3 fear	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 fear	advmod
3	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 comrade	nmod:poss
8	fleet	fleet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 footed	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 fleet	punct
10	footed	footed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 comrade	amod
11	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fetch	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fetch	aux
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 fetch	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wants	nsubj
20	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not fear	infinitive			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		King's footed comrade	tree rules
3	fetch	future	I		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	want	present	the King		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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