The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 11

Now when Simon came by, the first rogue said to him, ‘God bless you, my fine gentleman.’

Who acts: Simon, first rogue, God · What happens: come by, say, bless · To what, where: Simon, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, first rogue, God), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 when	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rogue	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 rogue	amod
9	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bless	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 bless	punct
15	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bless	nsubj
16	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 bless	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gentleman	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 gentleman	nmod:poss
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gentleman	amod
21	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bless	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 bless	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 bless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come by	past	Simon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the first rogue		Simon	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	bless	infinitive	God	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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