The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 130

I have some advice to give you,’ said the horse at last.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, give, say · To what, where: advice, you, horse, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 advice	det
4	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 advice	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	I	some advice			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Patient
2	give	to-infinitive			you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past		the horse		last	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

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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