The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 27

By long experience the man knew there was no good saying any more, and with a sigh he told the poor girl she must return to the forest for the axe.

Who acts: man, good saying, saying, mother · What happens: know, be, tell, return · To what, where: poor girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, good saying, saying, mother), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 experience	case
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 experience	amod
3	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	ccomp
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 saying	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saying	amod
11	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
12	any	any	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 saying	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 sigh	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sigh	det
18	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girl	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girl	amod
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 return	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 return	aux
26	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	ccomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 return	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 axe	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 axe	det
32	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 return	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the man			by long experience	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	no good saying		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	saying	the poor girl		with a sigh	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
4	return	must	mother			to the forest result; for the axe	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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