The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 61

As soon as they reached the house Mr. Simon said to his housekeeper, ‘Well, Nina, have you done what I told the goat to tell you to do?’

Who acts: guests, Simon, you, I · What happens: reach, say, do, tell · To what, where: house, goat, 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 (guests, Simon, you, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 reached	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Simon	nmod:desc
9	Simon	Simon	PROPN	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	_	13 housekeeper	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 housekeeper	nmod:poss
13	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
16	Well	well	INTJ	_	20 have	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Well	punct
18	Nina	Nina	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 have	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Nina	punct
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 told	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 goat	det
27	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	xcomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	xcomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	guests = guest	the house		soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Simon Mr.			to Simon's housekeeper	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to housekeeper=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	do	present · perfect	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	I		the goat		tree rules
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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