More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 35

"My father has given me this skin, and I am to fetch it back and the price of it beside."

Who acts: father, girl · What happens: give, fetch back · To what, where: skin, girl

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, girl), 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	_	5 given	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 given	iobj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 skin	det
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fetch	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fetch	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fetch	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fetch	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fetch	mark
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fetch	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 fetch	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 price	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 price	det
19	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 price	nmod
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 price	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · perfect	My father	this skin	girl				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient skin=Theme
2	fetch back in a quote	present	girl	skin					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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