The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 40

When they had done this wicked deed, she said to him, ‘Now let us go home and say that he died on the journey.

Who acts: feet, change, us, King · What happens: do, say, let, go, die · To what, where: wicked deed, King, us, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, change, us, King), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 deed	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deed	amod
7	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 let	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 let	advmod
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 say	cc
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 let	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 died	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 died	nsubj
24	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	ccomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 journey	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 journey	det
27	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 died	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	feet = foot	this wicked deed					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	change		King				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us			now		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	us not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	die	past	King			the journey			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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