The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 227

‘Then, my little husband, tell me how you managed to carry me so quickly to the ends of the world.’

Who acts: little husband, you · What happens: tell, manage, carry · To what, where: me, ends · 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 (little husband, you), 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	_	8 tell	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tell	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 husband	amod
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 husband	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 managed	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 managed	nsubj
12	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 managed	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 quickly	advmod
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	14 carry	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 ends	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ends	det
20	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carry	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ends	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	my little husband		me	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	manage	past	you					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	carry	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		to the ends of the world	quickly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to end=Destination

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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