The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 60

When the seven years had quite gone, the Fiend came with his book, and, pointing at the signatures, said, ‘I will take you underground with me; you shall have a meal there.

Who acts: seven years, Fiend, I, you · What happens: go, come, point, say, take, have · To what, where: signatures, you, meal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven years, Fiend, I, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fiend	det
10	Fiend	Fiend	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 book	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 book	nmod:poss
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pointing	punct
18	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 said	ccomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 signatures	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 signatures	det
21	signatures	signature	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pointing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pointing	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 take	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 take	aux
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 take	obj
30	underground	underground	ADV	_	28 take	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 take	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 take	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 meal	det
38	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
39	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 have	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the seven years					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the Fiend				with Fiend's book	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	point	gerund				the signatures		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the Fiend not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	future	I		you		with me; underground property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
6	have	shall	you	a meal		there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient

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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