The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 26

‘When I have a fine courtyard of my own at the King’s palace, I shall perhaps ask some of you to come and pay me a short visit,’ and scarcely waiting to say good-bye to his family, away he stumped down the high road that led to Madrid.

Who acts: I, Medio, high road · What happens: have, ask, come, pay, wait, say · To what, where: fine courtyard, some, short visit, me, good bye, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Medio, high road), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 have	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 courtyard	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 courtyard	amod
7	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 courtyard	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 palace	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 King	case
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 own	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ask	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	aux
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 ask	advmod
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 ask	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 some	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pay	cc
27	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 pay	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 visit	det
30	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 visit	amod
31	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pay	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 waiting	cc
35	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	36 waiting	advmod
36	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 ask	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 say	mark
38	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 waiting	xcomp
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bye	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 good	punct
41	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 say	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 family	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 family	nmod:poss
44	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 say	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stumped	punct
46	away	away	ADV	_	48 stumped	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 stumped	nsubj
48	stumped	stump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 waiting	conj
49	down	down	ADP	_	48 stumped	compound:prt
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 road	det
51	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 road	amod
52	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stumped	obj
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 led	nsubj
54	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 road	acl:relcl
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 Madrid	case
56	Madrid	Madrid	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 led	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a fine courtyard of my own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courtyard=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	shall	I	some		perhaps property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent some=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pay	infinitive		a short visit	me		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset
5	wait	gerund	I not said here			scarcely property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	good bye	Medio's family		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to family=Recipient
7	stump down	past	Medio	the high road		away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus road=Experiencer
8	lead	past	the high road		Madrid		vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to madrid=Patient

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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