English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 30

The gentleman comes to him, and says to him: “Well, my young man, I must say that you are very clever indeed.

Who acts: gentleman, I, Jack · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, I, Jack), 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 gentleman	det
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
13	Well	well	INTJ	_	21 say	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Well	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 man	nmod:poss
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Well	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Well	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 clever	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 clever	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 clever	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 clever	advmod
26	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 say	ccomp
27	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	26 clever	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	the gentleman	Jack		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	present		Jack		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	must	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	Jack		clever, indeed property	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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