The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 19

'If your friend has been ill he should not pass the night in the forest,' said she. '

Who acts: friend, woman · What happens: be, not pass, say · To what, where: forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, woman), 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	_	11 pass	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 ill	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ill	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pass	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pass	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pass	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 pass	advmod
11	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pass	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pass	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pass	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 pass	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	your friend			ill property	tree rules
2	not pass	should	friend	the forest	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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