The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 36

But the third time he said, ‘I see a mighty army in the distance, and one of the warriors has the biggest lance you ever saw!’

Who acts: fox, I, one, you · What happens: say, see, have · To what, where: mighty army, biggest lance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, I, one, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 army	det
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 army	amod
13	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 distance	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 distance	det
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 has	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 warriors	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 warriors	det
22	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lance	det
25	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 lance	amod
26	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 saw	advmod
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lance	acl:relcl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	fox		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	present	I	a mighty army		in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus
3	have	present	one of the warriors	the biggest lance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lance=Patient
4	see	past	you	the biggest lance not said here	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lance=Stimulus

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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