The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 21

'Yes, Kirsten; and I have brought back ten dollars, as the boy told us,' answered Peder.

Who acts: I, boy · What happens: bring back, tell, answer · To what, where: ten dollars, us, Peder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy), 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	_	4 Kirsten	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 Kirsten	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Kirsten	punct
4	Kirsten	Kirsten	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 brought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brought	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 brought	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	aux
9	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 Kirsten	parataxis
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 brought	advmod
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 dollars	nummod
12	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 told	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	parataxis
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	conj
22	Peder	Peder	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 answered	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Kirsten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	bring back	present · perfect	I	ten dollars		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the boy		us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the boy not said here		Peder	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peder=Eventuality

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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