The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 103
‘Come in,’ said the old man, ‘and stay with me all night.
Who acts: old man · What happens: come in, say, stay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stay | cc |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stay | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | night | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
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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