The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 113

She came to tell me herself only a couple of hours ago,” replied Subida, “and as he had spent all their money, I gave her something to bury him with.”

Who acts: wife, Abu, I · What happens: come, tell, reply, spend, give, bury · To what, where: wife, me, Subida, money, something, Abu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Abu, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 tell	obl
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 couple	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 couple	det
9	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ago	obl:unmarked
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 hours	case
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 couple	nmod
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
16	Subida	Subida	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 replied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 spent	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spent	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spent	aux
23	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 gave	advcl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 money	det:predet
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 money	nmod:poss
26	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spent	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spent	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 replied	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 gave	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 bury	mark
33	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 something	acl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bury	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	33 bury	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	wife				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife	me	ago property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	reply speech: assert in a quote	past		Subida			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subida=Topic
4	spend	past · perfect	Abu	tears's money			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
5	give	past	I	something	wife		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient something=Theme
6	bury	to-infinitive	I not said here	Abu			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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