The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 62

Then said the first soldier, ‘In the North Sea lies a dead sea-cat; that shall be the roast meat.’

Who acts: dead sea cat, that · What happens: say, lie, be · To what, where: first soldier, North Sea, roast meat · 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 (dead sea cat, that), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 soldier	amod
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lies	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 lies	punct
8	In	in	ADP	_	11 Sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sea	det
10	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sea	compound
11	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lies	obl
12	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cat	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cat	amod
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cat	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lies	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 meat	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 meat	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 meat	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 meat	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 meat	det
23	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meat	compound
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 meat	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 meat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the first soldier		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic
2	lie	present	a dead sea cat		the North Sea		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location
3	is a	shall	that	the roast meat			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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