The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 68

The lad also told him that his mistress wished him to be ready next morning at nine o’clock, when she would come for him with the carriage, as she had promised.

Who acts: lad, mistress · What happens: tell, wish, be, come, promise · To what, where: Irishman, lad, nine, ready next morning · 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 (lad, mistress), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wished	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mistress	nmod:poss
8	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wished	nsubj
9	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wished	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	15 morning	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 morning	cop
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wished	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 nine	case
17	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wished	obl
18	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nine	nmod:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 come	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wished	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 carriage	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 carriage	det
28	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 promised	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 promised	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 promised	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 promised	aux
33	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 come	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the lad		Irishman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wish	past	lad's mistress	lad		nine o’clock		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	lad's mistress not said here	ready next morning				tree rules
4	come	would	mistress				for lad; with the carriage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	mistress					vn promise-37.13 «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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