The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 51

‘There’s a cake for you; now say:

Who acts: you · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 ’s	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	expl
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cake	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’s	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ’s	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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