English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 6

So he dismounted and went up to him and said: “What is the matter, my good man?”

Who acts: baron · What happens: dismount, go up, say, be · To what, where: baron, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baron), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 dismounted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dismounted	nsubj
3	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dismounted	conj
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dismounted	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 matter	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 matter	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 matter	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 matter	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 matter	det
16	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 man	nmod:poss
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 matter	appos
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	dismount	past	baron			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go up	past	baron not said here		baron	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	say speech: ask	past	baron not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		the matter		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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