The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 20

Then the Crab gave her a golden rod, and said, ‘Go and strike with this rod three times upon the ground on the place which the King showed you, and to-morrow morning the wall will be there.’

Who acts: Crab, King, wall · What happens: give, say, go, strike, show, be · To what, where: golden rod, Go, place, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crab, King, wall), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crab	det
3	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rod	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rod	amod
8	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
14	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strike	cc
16	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 Go	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 rod	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 rod	det
19	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 strike	obl
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 times	nummod
21	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Go	obl:unmarked
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Go	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 place	det
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Go	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 showed	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 showed	nsubj
31	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 place	acl:relcl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 showed	iobj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 there	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 there	cc
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 morning	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 to	punct
37	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 morning	compound
38	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 there	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wall	det
40	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 there	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 there	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 there	cop
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Crab	a golden rod	Go		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rod=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Crab not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive				the place	time	upon the ground	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location
4	strike	infinitive						with this rod	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rod=Theme
5	show	past	the King	the place	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic
6	is	future	the wall				morning	there property	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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