The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 85

By sunset, it was back again in its stall, and then came the master and said, with a frown, ‘Were you really so clever yourself, or did somebody tell you what to do?’

Who acts: thread, stall, somebody · What happens: be, come, say, tell, do · To what, where: stall, master, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, stall, somebody), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stall	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sunset	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stall	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stall	cop
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 again	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	10 stall	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 stall	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stall	nmod:poss
10	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clever	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stall	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 master	det
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frown	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 frown	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 frown	det
22	frown	frown	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frown	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 frown	punct
25	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 clever	cop
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 Were	nsubj
27	really	really	ADV	_	29 clever	advmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 clever	advmod
29	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 clever	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 did	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 did	cc
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
34	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 tell	nsubj
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 clever	parataxis
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 do	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 tell	ccomp
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 clever	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	thread			thread's stall	again; sunset		tree rules
2	come	past		the master			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	thread's stall					yourself obl; clever property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	somebody		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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