The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 45

In the evening the Princess told this to the Crab, who said to her, ‘Take this rod, go to the garden gate and knock with it, then a black man will come out and say to you, ‘’Why have you called me, and what do you require of me?

Who acts: Princess, Crab, black man, you · What happens: tell, say, take, go, knock, come out · To what, where: this, Princess, rod, garden gate, you, me · 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 (Princess, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 told	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Crab	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Crab	det
10	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Crab	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Take	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Take	punct
18	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 rod	det
20	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Take	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Take	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 gate	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gate	det
25	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gate	compound
26	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knock	cc
28	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Take	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knock	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 come	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Take	parataxis
38	out	out	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 say	cc
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 you	case
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 say	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 called	punct
44	‘’	‘'	PUNCT	_	48 called	punct
45	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	48 called	advmod
46	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 called	aux
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 called	nsubj
48	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 say	advcl
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 called	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 require	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 require	cc
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 require	obj
53	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 require	aux
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 require	nsubj
55	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 me	case
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 require	obl
58	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Princess	this			evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent this=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the Crab		Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	take	infinitive		this rod					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme
4	go	infinitive				the garden gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
5	knock	infinitive						with gate	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme
6	come out	future	a black man				then	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	a black man not said here		you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
8	call	present · perfect	you		me				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
9	require	present · do-support	you					of me	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition

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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