The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 133

When the maiden saw him flying away she thought at first that he was still in play, and cried, ‘Come back, friend, for now you see I have told you the truth.’

Who acts: maiden, finger, you, I · What happens: see, fly away, think, be, cry, come back · To what, where: finger, play, truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, finger, you, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 flying	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 first	case
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 thought	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 play	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 play	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 play	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	17 play	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 play	case
17	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Come	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Come	punct
23	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 cried	ccomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 Come	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Come	vocative
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 now	case
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 see	obl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
31	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Come	advcl
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 told	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 told	aux
34	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 see	ccomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 told	iobj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 truth	det
37	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 told	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 Come	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the maiden	finger					tree rules
2	fly away	gerund	finger not said here					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	maiden						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	finger			play	still		tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come back	infinitive						friend vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I	the truth	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic

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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