The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 102

As he stepped on it the whale said, ‘Do tell me where you are going.’

Who acts: man, whale, you · What happens: step, say, tell, go · To what, where: sea, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, whale, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 stepped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stepped	nsubj
3	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stepped	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whale	det
7	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	Do	do	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 going	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tell	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	step	past	man		sea	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	the whale			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	go	present · progressive	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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