Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 12

"Call at my room this evening," said Goldsmith to the woman, "and I will give you some med-i-cine for your husband."

Who acts: Goldsmith · What happens: call, say, give · To what, where: woman, i cine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goldsmith), 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	_	2 Call	punct
2	Call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 room	nmod:poss
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Call	obl
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Call	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Call	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Call	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Goldsmith	Goldsmith	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 woman	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 give	aux
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 cine	det
23	med	med	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 i	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 med	punct
25	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cine	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 i	punct
27	cine	cine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 husband	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cine	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	infinitive				evening	at my room	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at room=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Goldsmith		the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	future	Goldsmith	some i cine	the woman = woman		for your husband	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cine=Theme for husband=Asset

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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