The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 54

‘Come down to us,’ they said, ‘we will do you no harm.’

Who acts: hunters, we · What happens: come down, say, do · To what, where: us, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunters, 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 harm	det
17	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come down	infinitive			us	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	hunters = hunter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	future	we	you			tree rules

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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