English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 43

“All right,” said the little red men to him; “do you wish to go with it?”

Who acts: little red men, you · What happens: say, wish, go · 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 (little red men, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 said	ccomp
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 All	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 men	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wish	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
17	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wish	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the little red men		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present · do-support	you		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	with sea	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary

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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