The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 132

But this story was not true; she knew nothing about her mother, only she wanted an excuse to go home and tell her family that their prophecies had come true, and that the buffalo was dead.

Who acts: story, mother, prophecies, buffalo · What happens: not be, know, want, go, tell, come · To what, where: nothing, excuse, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, mother, prophecies, buffalo), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 true	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 true	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 knew	obj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wanted	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 wanted	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knew	parataxis
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 excuse	det
19	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wanted	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 excuse	acl
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 family	nmod:poss
26	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 prophecies	nmod:poss
29	prophecies	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 tell	ccomp
32	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 come	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 dead	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 dead	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 dead	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 buffalo	det
37	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dead	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 dead	cop
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wanted	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this story		true property	tree rules
2	know	past	mother	nothing	about mother's mother	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	want	past	mother	a excuse		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot excuse=Theme
4	go	to-infinitive	mother not said here	a excuse not said here	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	mother not said here	mother's family		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent family=Recipient clause=Topic
6	come	past · perfect	mountains's prophecies		true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the buffalo		dead property	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 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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