The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 162

‘I only spoke of it,’ said John, ‘because you see in me the man who delivered the Princess from the goblins and whom she promised to marry.’

Who acts: I, John, you, man, Princess · What happens: speak, say, see, deliver, promise, marry · To what, where: man, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, John, you, man), 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 spoke	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 John	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 John	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 see	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 delivered	nsubj
21	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 man	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 delivered	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 goblins	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 goblins	det
26	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 delivered	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 whom	cc
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 delivered	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 promised	nsubj
30	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 whom	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 marry	mark
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 promised	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	I		of subject	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	John			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	present	you	the man	in me	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	deliver	past	the man	the Princess	from the goblins	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from goblin=Initial_Location
5	promise speech: promise	past	Princess			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princess not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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