The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 197

‘I have come,’ said the Kinglet, ‘to remind you of your promise.

Who acts: I, Kinglet, your · What happens: come, say, remind, promise · To what, where: you · 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, Kinglet, your), 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 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Kinglet	det
9	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remind	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 remind	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 remind	mark
13	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 remind	iobj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 promise	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 promise	nmod:poss
17	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remind	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Kinglet			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	the Kinglet not said here	you	of your promise	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient of promise=Topic
4	promise		your			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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