The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 50

The judges said: ‘Bring us some proof.’

Who acts: judges · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: proof, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judges), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judges	det
2	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Bring	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Bring	punct
6	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Bring	obj
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 proof	det
9	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Bring	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Bring	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the judges						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring	infinitive		some proof	us				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination proof=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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