The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 28

Then the Crab said to the old fisherman, ‘Now take this rod; go and knock with it on a certain mountain; then a black man(6) will come out and ask you what you wish for.

Who acts: Crab, black man, you · What happens: say, take, go, knock, come out, ask · To what, where: rod, certain mountain, 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, black man, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crab	det
3	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 fisherman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fisherman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fisherman	amod
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
11	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 take	advmod
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 rod	det
14	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 knock	cc
18	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knock	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 mountain	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mountain	det
23	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mountain	amod
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knock	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 come	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	nsubj
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 6	punct
31	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 man	appos
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 6	punct
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
35	out	out	ADV	_	34 come	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ask	cc
37	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	conj
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 ask	iobj
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 ask	obj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 wish	nsubj
41	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 what	acl:relcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	41 wish	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Crab				then	to the old fisherman	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to fisherman=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	take	infinitive		this rod			now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme
3	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	knock	infinitive				a certain mountain		with rod	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme
5	come out	future	a black man				then	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive	a black man not said here		you				tree rules
7	wish	present	you						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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