The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 76

‘Then I am already dead,’ said the King sadly, ‘but you must carry me there yourself.’

Who acts: I, King, you · What happens: be, say, carry · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King, 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	_	6 dead	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dead	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	11 King	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 carry	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 carry	obj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 carry	advmod
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 carry	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			then	dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry	must	you	me	there		yourself obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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