More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 38

So the girl washed the skin in the stream, took the wool from it, and paid him the value of it, and gave him the skin to carry back.

Who acts: girl · What happens: wash, take, pay, give, carry back, value · To what, where: skin, stream, wool, father

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	4 washed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	nsubj
4	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skin	det
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wool	det
13	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 paid	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 paid	cc
18	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 paid	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 value	det
21	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paid	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 value	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 skin	det
29	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 carry	mark
31	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gave	advcl
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 carry	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	wash	past	the girl	the skin		the stream	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
2	take	past	the girl not said here	the wool		skin	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent wool=Theme from it=Initial_Location
3	pay	past	the girl not said here		father		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient value=Asset
4	give	past	the girl not said here	the skin	father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient skin=Theme
5	carry back	to-infinitive	the girl not said here				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	value			skin			nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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