The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 59

The old fellow seized the youth by the arm, and said roughly, ‘Follow me!’

Who acts: old fellow · What happens: seize, say, follow · To what, where: youth, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fellow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arm	det
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
13	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
16	Follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Follow	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the old fellow	the youth	by the arm	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old fellow not said here		roughly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	follow	infinitive		me		vn chase-51.6 «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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