The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 85

“Here are your cocoa-nuts,” he said, presenting them to the woman.

Who acts: cocoa nuts, few · What happens: be, say, present · To what, where: nuts, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cocoa nuts, few), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 said	parataxis
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nuts	nmod:poss
5	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nuts	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cocoa	punct
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Here	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 presenting	punct
13	presenting	present	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 presenting	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 woman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 presenting	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	your cocoa nuts			here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	few				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	present	gerund	few not said here	nuts = nut	the woman		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to woman=Recipient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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