The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 171

One day, the sultan said to his six sons, ‘I am going into the country, to see how the wheat is growing, and you shall come with me.’

Who acts: sultan, I, wheat, you · What happens: say, go, see, grow, come · To what, where: six sons, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, I, wheat, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sultan	det
5	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 sons	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sons	nmod:poss
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sons	nummod
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 country	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 country	det
18	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 going	conj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 growing	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wheat	det
24	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 growing	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 growing	aux
26	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 see	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sultan	sultan's six sons		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient
2	go	present · progressive	I		the country			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location
3	see	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	grow	present · progressive	the wheat					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	shall	you				with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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