The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 9

‘Come with me,’ said the man, ‘a little way off we have made a large fire, and you will rest far better there than out upon this moor.’

Who acts: man, we, you · What happens: come, say, make, rest · To what, where: large fire, moor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, we, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	18 made	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 way	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fire	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fire	amod
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rest	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rest	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 rest	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 rest	aux
26	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 better	advmod
28	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 there	advmod
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 rest	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 out	case
31	out	out	ADV	_	29 there	obl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 moor	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 moor	det
34	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rest	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 rest	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive				with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	present · perfect	we	a large fire			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
4	rest	future	you		this moor; there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon moor=Location

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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