The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 28

This went on for seven days and nights, when the white horse, who had never done such a thing before, turned to the Sun-Hero and said in a human voice: ‘Listen to what I am going to say.

Who acts: This, white horse, I · What happens: go on, not do, turn, say, listen, go · To what, where: thing, human voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, white horse, 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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 nights	cc
8	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 days	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 turned	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 horse	amod
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 done	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 done	advmod
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 horse	acl:relcl
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	21 thing	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 done	obj
22	before	before	ADV	_	18 done	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 Hero	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Hero	det
27	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Hero	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Sun	punct
29	Hero	Hero	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 voice	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 voice	det
34	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 voice	amod
35	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 Listen	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 Listen	punct
38	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 what	case
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 Listen	obl
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 going	nsubj
42	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 going	aux
43	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 what	acl:relcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 say	mark
45	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 going	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	This			day		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not do	past · perfect	the white horse	such thing			before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	turn	past	the white horse				to the Sun Hero result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hero=Result
4	say speech: assert	past	This not said here		a human voice			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner
5	listen	infinitive	This not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
6	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here					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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