More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 37

And the girl told him to fetch her the money, and he asked his master for it, and brought it to her.

Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: tell, fetch, ask, bring · To what, where: friend, money, girl, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg14241:348): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fetch	mark
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fetch	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 money	det
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 master	nmod:poss
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brought	cc
21	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asked	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the girl		friend		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	the money	girl		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary money=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	friend	friend's master		for master	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
4	bring	past	friend not said here	master	girl		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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