The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 144

‘Oh! take a day or two if you like,’ said the Enchanter; ‘but in the meantime, I am going to send for your daughter.

Who acts: you, Enchanter, I · What happens: take, like, say, go, send · To what, where: meantime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Enchanter, I), 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	_	4 take	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 take	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Enchanter	det
16	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 going	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 meantime	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 meantime	det
22	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 meantime	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 going	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 send	mark
28	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 going	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 daughter	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 send	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	the Enchanter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	present · progressive	I	the meantime			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	send	to-infinitive	I not said here			for your daughter	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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