The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 70

When he arrived on the beach, he said to the dog: ‘You are an excellent swimmer, and you, little one, are very light; jump on the dog’s back and he will take you to the palace.

Who acts: cat, You · What happens: arrive, say, be, jump, take · To what, where: beach, dog, excellent swimmer, back, you, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 beach	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 dog	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 swimmer	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 swimmer	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 swimmer	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 swimmer	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 swimmer	det
18	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 swimmer	amod
19	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 light	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 light	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 light	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 you	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 you	punct
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 light	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 light	advmod
29	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 swimmer	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 jump	punct
31	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 light	parataxis
32	on	on	ADP	_	36 back	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dog	det
34	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 back	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 dog	case
36	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 jump	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 take	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 take	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 take	aux
40	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 jump	conj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 take	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 palace	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 palace	det
44	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 take	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	cat			the beach		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	cat		the dog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient
3	is a	present	You	a excellent swimmer				tree rules
4	is	present	you				light property	tree rules
5	jump	infinitive				the dog's back		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
6	take	future	cat	you		the palace		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to palace=Destination

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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