The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 15

“Children,” he said, “I brought her here for your dinner, and you have not touched her; what is the meaning of this?”

Who acts: Children, you · What happens: say, bring, not touch, be · To what, where: girl, meaning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, you), 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 Children	punct
2	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Children	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Children	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 brought	nsubj
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 brought	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 dinner	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dinner	nmod:poss
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 touched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 touched	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 touched	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 touched	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 touched	advmod
21	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 touched	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 meaning	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 meaning	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 meaning	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 meaning	det
27	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 this	case
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 meaning	nmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 meaning	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 meaning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Children					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring in a quote	past	Children = child		girl	here	for your dinner	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
3	not touch in a quote	present · perfect	you	girl				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
4	is a in a quote	present		the meaning			of this	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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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