The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 76

‘Yes,’ said he, ‘and she bade me tell you that if you don’t meet her at nine o’clock to-morrow you will never see her again.’

Who acts: lad, Princess, you · What happens: say, bade, tell, not meet, not see · To what, where: me, you, Princess, nine o’clock · 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, Princess, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
8	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	11 bade	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bade	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bade	nsubj
11	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bade	obj
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bade	xcomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 meet	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 meet	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 meet	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 meet	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 meet	advmod
20	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 see	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 meet	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 o’clock	case
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 o’clock	nummod
24	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meet	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 morrow	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 to	punct
27	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 o’clock	nmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 see	advmod
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	ccomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obj
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 see	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	lad					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bade	past	Princess	me				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Princess not said here		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not meet a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	Princess		nine o’clock to morrow		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
5	not see	future	you	Princess			again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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