The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 165

‘But I told my deliverer to be ready to go with me when I passed by with my coach.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, be, go, pass · To what, where: deliverer · 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), 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 told	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 deliverer	nmod:poss
6	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 ready	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 ready	cop
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ready	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 passed	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 passed	nsubj
16	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 coach	case
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 coach	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 coach	nmod:poss
20	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I	my deliverer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deliverer=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive			ready property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive			with me	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary
4	pass	past	I		by my coach	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by coach=Location

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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